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A Darwinian approach to Huntington's disease: subtle health benefits of a neurological disorder.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2007

Eskenazi Benjamin R, Wilson-Rich Noah S, Starks Philip T

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Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that, unlike most autosomal dominant disorders, is not being selected against. One explanation for the maintenance of the mutant HD allele is that it is transparent to natural selection because disease symptoms typically occur subsequent to an individual's peak reproductive years. While true, this observation does not explain the population-level increase...

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PMID: 17689877
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.02.046

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