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    Huntington's disease qualifies as a genetic condition on ... — Carmelics
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    Huntington's disease qualifies as a genetic condition on both individual and population accounts

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    • 1.A single mutant gene is necessary, and arguably sufficient given standard background conditions, for symptoms to appear in an individual
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    • 2.The presence and absence of disease symptoms across a population is accounted for by the presence and absence of the mutation
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    • 1.Causation requires more than statistical correlation between mutation presence and symptom expression across a population.
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    • 2.Age of onset, symptom severity, and progression in HD vary substantially, suggesting gene expression is modulated by non-genetic factors.
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    • 3.A condition whose phenotypic realization depends on developmental and environmental context is not adequately explained by genetic accounts alone.
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    • 1.Kendler and Crasnow argue that 'genetic condition' conflates distinct explanatory levels: molecular causation, population statistics, and clinical taxonomy.
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    • 2.HD satisfies the individual account only under a ceteris paribus clause that smuggles in background conditions the genetic account cannot itself specify.
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    The third, and final, way in which genetic explanations are context-dependent is that they are a function of the present state of knowledge. Huntington's disease is deemed a genetic condition on both the individual and population accounts: a single mutant gene is necessary, and arguably sufficient given necessary (and standard) background conditions, for symptoms to appear in a given person; the presence and absence of disease symptoms in members of the population is accounted for in terms of th
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