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There are two forms of Huntington’s disease. The most common is adult-onset Huntington’s disease. Persons with this form usually develop symptoms in their mid 30s and 40s.
Although huntington’s disease attracted considerable attention from scientists in the early 20th century, there was little sustained research on the disease until the late 1960s when the Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease and the Huntington’s Chorea Foundation, later called the Hereditary Disease Foundation, first began to fund research and to campaign for federal funding.
The first thorough description of the disease was by George Huntington in 1872. Examining the combined medical history of several generations of a family exhibiting similar symptoms, he realized their conditions must be linked; he presented his detailed and accurate definition of the disease as his first paper.