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What are risk of getting disease from a family member with huntington's chorea disease?
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See below: There is only one mutated copy of the gene needed for a person to be affected. Each affected person usually has one affected parent. There is a 50% chance that a child will inherit the mutated gene. It is commonly seen in western european descent than Asian or africian ones.
Answered 2/19/2015
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