I saw this piece on NBC's Today show
https://www.today.com/video/video/gr...-1440579651923 about a pitcher for the Houston Astros whose family history is positive for Huntington's Disease.
The first thing I thought after seeing it was Ted Williams was
right-- pitchers
are the dumbest people in the world.
The situation- his family has several members with HD, therefore, he could have the gene and be susceptible to developing the symptoms & problems as he ages.
He doesn't want to do genetic testing now, because he claims others who have done it and find that they're positive go thru a period of depression.
He wants to have kids, so he runs the risk of passing the gene on.
He has decided with his wife that they will go to the expensive process of in vivo fertilization with selection of which egg to use based on genetic testing of the fertilized eggs. His wife would be submitted to laparoscopic surgery to collect eggs.
Won't he find out if he's got the gene that way, anyway?