The story of George Huntington and his disease

• Published in: Annals of the Indian Academy of Neurology Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 25 - 28
• Main Author: Bhattacharyya, KalyanB
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 01.01.2016; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Gusella; History of Medicine; Huntington; Huntington, George Sumner; Physicians; trinucleotide repeat length; Wexler; India; trinucleotide repeat length; Wexler; Huntington; Gusella

George Huntington described some families with choreiform movements in 1872 in the United States of America and since then many such families have been described in other parts of the world and works on the genetics of the disease have brought new vistas in the understanding of the disease. In 1958,...