Huntington Diseas is a genetic disorder that affects nerve cells. Symptoms, which normally appear in a persons's 40, include loss of muscal control and brain fuction. The symtoms worsen for 15 years or so before the dieases causes death. It is caused by versions of a single gene on the short arm of chromosome 4. This gene contains a region in which the bases CAG repeat. In people without the disease, there may be about 11 to 34 repeats; if there are more than about 42 in either copy of the gene, Huntington's disease will set in. The more repeats, the earlier the onset.
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by wise_one__aka_sara May 11, 2005
The natural, phenotypic expression of a pathogenic cellular alteration--caused by complex social, political, economic, and environmental processes.
Although the disease cancer did not begin with the industrial revolution, it is now a major component of it because one of the most profound consequences of the event was an increase in average life expectancy particularly for those of us who live in the so-called industrialized world. Cancer needs time to develop. Another consequence, of course, has been an increase in environmental toxins as a result of our economic activity. Cancer is stimulated, biochemically, by carcinogens like those found in pesticides.
by aaaranda420 October 7, 2012
Disease, can mean talent, looks or moves, diseased can mean hip, cool, groovy, hot, perfect, lovely, pretty, awesome.
Snake: "Check out that chick's disease Shovel"
Shovel: "Woah I wouldn't mind catching some of that!"
Shovel: "Woah I wouldn't mind catching some of that!"
by Holden Morrisey Caulfield May 19, 2006
Disease, one that melts the bone or weakens it. Sure to be named in the future. Revoked from the ancient. Does it spread?
by dujannn December 8, 2022