A twenty-year-old patient tells the nurse that his father has just been diagnosed with Huntington disease and he wants to know his own risk of contracting the disease. What can the nurse tell him?
1. "You have the same risk of contracting the disease as anyone else."
2. "No one can predict the risk of contracting Huntington disease for any individual."
3. "Every child of a person with Huntington disease has a 50% risk of contracting the disease."
4. "Children of someone who has been diagnosed with Huntington disease are immune from contracting the disease."
Answer: 3
Explanation: There is a 50% risk of heritability in offspring of persons with Huntington disease. There is a clear genetic link in Huntington disease, so the risk to the general population is significantly less than in children of those with the disease. The offspring of those with Huntington disease have an increased vulnerability, not immunity.
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