What is the Hereditary Disease Foundation?
The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) aims to cure Huntington’s Disease (HD) by supporting basic biomedical research. The HDF was founded in 1968 by the late Milton Wexler, when his wife was diagnosed with HD. HD is a fatal, dominantly inherited, genetic, neurological disorder causing involuntary movements, severe emotional disturbance and progressive cognitive loss over ten to twenty years. (Moreover, each child of an HD affected parent has a 50% risk of inheriting HD, usually in the third or fourth decade of life, though children as young as two years and adults in their eighties may also develop symptoms.
