Type of inheritance pattern?

Singer Arlo Guthrie has a 50% chance of dying prematurely from Huntington's chorea, the same genetic disease that killed his father, Woody Guthrie. Neither Woody Guthrie's mother now Arlo Guthrie's mother carries any allele for this disease. What type of inheritance pattern does this disease have?


a) sex-linked dominant


b) autosomal recessive


c) sex-linked recessive


d) autosomal dominant

Type of inheritance pattern?
Huntington's disease is autosomal dominant, needing only one affected allele from either parent to inherit the disease.

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