Imagine yourself in the same position as Kristen Powers, faced wi...

Question

Imagine yourself in the same position as Kristen Powers, faced with the decision of whether or not to undergo a genetic test that will discover if you have inherited Huntington disease. List five life decisions or choices that you think are likely to be affected by the results of the genetic test. Do you think you would make the same choice to test that Kristen made? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone and welcome to today's video. So what causes Huntington's disease? As answer choice. A we have a lower number of neurons in the brain as answer choice B, we have mutations in a gene as answer choice C, we have failure to produce a protein and as answer choice D we have all of the above. Now, I really want to help you recall from previous videos. What is going to be causing this Huntington disease? Well, remember that there is a gene called the H TT gene that is going to code for a certain protein called the hunting team protein. Now, the special function or just the wild type function of this hunting team protein is not really known. However, certain mutations on this H TT gene which are going to result in differences in the hunting team protein is going to make this protein aggregate with itself and other protein which is going to lead to the death of neurons in the brain, which is going to eventually cause Huntington's disease. So this keyword mutations of the H TT gene is the main cause of Huntington disease. Therefore, the correct answer choice here is going to be answer choice mutation in a gene. I really hope this helped you and I hope to see you on the next video.

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