Huntington's disease is an autosomal dominant neurological disorder that usually appears in mid-life (30-50 years of age). However many people with the affliction do not show symptoms until they are well into their 60s. In one or two sentences, explain why this slow development of the disease has led to increased numbers of Huntington’s sufferers in the population?
The slow development of Huntington's disease has led to increased numbers of sufferers in the population because individuals who are unaffected by the disease but carry the mutated gene may pass it on to their children without being aware of their own genetic risk, resulting in the transmission and accumulation of the disease-causing gene in subsequent generations.
