The HOPES Timeline (Non-Flash, Part 6)

A Brief History of Huntington's Disease

Scenes 26-29

1983

Scientists discover a gene marker linked to HD on the short arm of chromosome 4, which indicates that the Huntington gene is also located on chromosome 4. Predictive linkage testing is introduced to assess the likelihood of contracting HD.

1993

The location of the Huntington gene is discovered at the 4p16.3 gene site on chromosome 4. The gene is found to contain codon C-A-G in varying numbers. An abnormal number of CAG repeats turns out to be a highly reliable way to tell whether someone has the allele for HD.

2000

The Huntington´s Disease Advocacy Center (HDAC) is created to provide information and support for people with HD and their families.

2001

HOPES is a team of faculty and undergraduate students at Stanford University dedicated to making scientific information about Huntington´s disease (HD) more readily accessible to the public. Our goal is to survey the rapidly growing scientific literature on HD and to consolidate this information into a coherent, reliable web resource that reflects current scientific understanding of HD.

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Last Modified: 04/12/2007

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