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Port Soy Harbour in the Grampian region of Scotland which, along with the Highlands, has a high rate of Huntington’s, partly due to ancestral susceptibility to the disease. Helen Hotson/Shutterstock

Huntington’s disease: northern Scotland has one of world’s highest rates and rising sharply – here’s why

Zofia Miedzybrodzka, University of Aberdeen

Better awareness of the disease has led to more testing, but there is also an ancestral element to explaining its proliferation in the UK’s far north.

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