The Clay Family Suffers Huntington’s Disease On April 19, 1999, Marie Clay took her 28-year-old daughter, Laurie Clay, to a counselor because she was at high risk of getting Huntington’s disease, a hereditary disease. Due to Laurie’s father, she would be clumsy, fat and forgetful as her father. This is Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells in the brain to break down. If one of parents is the patient of the disease, each of their children will also inherit the disease by the chance of 50%. Marie’s husband, Phillip, first showed signs of Huntington’s in his 30s, but they are just small symptoms. However, after about 10 years, he fell more and more. His speech was too unclear to understand, and he felt
