The Basics of Huntington's Disease

Welcome to HD Basics! This section is intended to be a starting point for learning about HD. Here, you will find information about HD, as well as basic coverage of some relevant scientific topics. The first chapter in particular is a good place to start for a foundational review of Huntington's disease.

Chapters:

• The Basics of Huntington's Disease (Video version, in English)
• The Basics of Huntington's Disease (Text version, in English)
• Spanish (Español)
• Polish (Wersja polska)
• French (Français)
• An Introduction to DNA and Chromosomes
• An Introduction to Proteins
• Juvenile Huntington's Disease
• A Historical Timeline of Huntington's Disease
• The HOPES Brain Tutorial
• HOPES For Kids

For users who wish to print out chapters or even entire sections in full, HOPES also offers our chapters in Adobe Reader (pdf) and Microsoft Word (doc) formats. Click here to view and/or download these files.

Last Modified: 01/08/2008

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