Quotes About Huntington's

For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Despite the availability of testing, at least half of the population at risk for Huntington's disease still has children without making use of the new technologies. Even some of the people who have prenatal testing for Huntington's still have a profound reluctance to learn their own status. Couples who try preimplantation genetic diagnosis may even conceive a child and choose not to find out if the parent at risk has the mutation. Deciding