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1. If one of your parents has HD, what are the chances that you would inherit the disease?

2. What is a trinucleotide repeat and which trinucleotide repeat is associated with HD?

3. What protein is made by the gene for Huntington's disease?

4. If you inherited Huntington's disease, you probably inherited the disease from which parent?

5. If random chance for having Huntington's disease is one in 10,000, what are the chances that a married couple would both have the disease?

6. Because the odds defined in question 5 are so low, most people with the disease are assumed to have one dominant allele and one recessive allele. How would you describe that person's genotype?

7. Genetic counselors try not to let their personal beliefs influence their advice to a person about whether or not they should be tested. This is known as a ________________ counseling approach.

8. What is another example of a genetic disease?