{"id":617483,"date":"2019-05-16T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617483"},"modified":"2019-05-16T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:37:15","slug":"why-adults-at-risk-for-huntingtons-choose-not-to-learn-if-they-inherited-deadly-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617483","title":{"rendered":"Why adults at risk for Huntington&#039;s choose not to learn if they inherited deadly gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington&#8217;s disease (HD) choose not to take a gene test that reveals if they will also develop the fatal disorder &#8212; and a new study details the reasons why. Understanding the &#8221;why&#8221; matters as new clinical trials testing therapies for people who haven&#8217;t yet developed symptoms of Huntington disease requires participants to be tested for the HD gene to be included in the trials.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190516103715.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Why adults at risk for Huntington&#8217;s choose not to learn if they inherited deadly gene<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington&#8217;s disease (HD) choose not to take a gene test that reveals if they will also develop the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}