I came to the decision that I want to know more about the disease that has been tormenting my family, and what I found is rather frightening. Huntington's Disease is a dominant trait that has autosomal inheritance. It affects chromosome four with dynamic mutation(There is unnecessary copying of the chromosomes protein). The offspring who have the mutated copy of the gene will have the disease. With this type of inheritance pattern, each offspring of an affected parent has a 50% risk of inheriting the mutated allele and therefore they'll be affected by this disorder. The thing that bothers me the most about this is that there is a possibility that either my siblings or I carry Huntington's Disease. 

B. Lewis
6/14/11