Thanks for your message shannon.

So are you saying that i basically no chance of having huntingtons as
my parents are in their 40's and are healthy and dont have HD and
because my grandparents are in their 60's fairly healthy and dont
have HD and to my knowledge there is no family history.
If there is no family history can you still get HD?
I dont even know im worried i may have HD its just becuase ive read
up on it and i am suffering depression and on antidepressants plus i
have some dodgy jumpy movements now and again.
My dads uncle is 80 and healthy too so on the basis of the info i
have given you my parents are 42, grandparents are in their 60's
other nan in her 60's and my other grandad died at 70 years old from
cancer plus all my other relatives are healthy.
Does this mean that HD does not run in my family i was thinking maybe
my parents could have HD for some reason and havent been diagnosed
but none of their relatives or parents have HD so im probably being
stupid and getting worried for no reason at all.

Any comments from anyone would be much aprreciated.




--- In onebighuntingtonsfamily@yahoogroups.com, shabs96@a... wrote:
> Hi Karl.
> You have nothing to fear..at least where HD is concerned.
Huntington's is a genetic disease, so it is passed on through the
genes of a parent. Hd is a very odd gene. It doesn't follow the
normal traits of genetics. Basically, a person cannot carry the
gene. They either have it or they don't. I, myself, am 21 and at
risk. My father died of HD in june of 2003, and i am preparing to
begin the testing process, which starts the end of this month.
> -Shannon
>
> ps. thanks for the link, tara. I'm gonna check it out too!