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Huntington’s disease will be used as an example of an hereditary neurodegenerative disease in which there have been recent advances in scientific understanding leading to improved diagnosis but attendant with important ethical considerations.
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Dinsdale, H.B. (1988). Huntington’s Disease: An Example of Advances in Genetics Posing Ethical Problems. In: Hess, B., Ploog, D., Opolka, U. (eds) Neurosciences and Ethics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73570-7_9
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