Table 1. Baseline demographics of the COHORT population by group.
Groups that carry an expanded allele | Groups that do not carry an expanded allele | ||||||
Individuals with clinically diagnosed HD[n = 930] | First-degree relatives who pursued genetic testing and carry an expanded allele[n = 248] | First-degree relatives who did not pursue genetic testing and carry an expanded allele[n = 112] | First-degreerelatives who did not pursue genetic testing and do not carry an expanded allele[n = 224] | First-degree relatives who pursued genetic testing and do not carry an expanded allele[n = 41] | Spousesand caregivers[n = 430] | P-value* | |
Group definition | |||||||
(CAG)n of 36 or greater | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | - |
Genetic testing pursued prior to baseline | Some | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | - |
Clinically diagnosed with HD | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | - |
Demographics | |||||||
Age [years] | 51.9 (12.0) | 40.9 (12.5) | 40.9 (12.9) | 47.2 (14.3) | 43.9 (12.2) | 52.4 (12.3) | <0.001 |
Female [%] | 51.6 | 64.1 | 61.6 | 69.2 | 61.0 | 53.5 | <0.001 |
White [%] | 93.2 | 96.0 | 90.2 | 91.0 | 97.6 | 94.2 | 0.11 |
Ethnicity [% reporting Spanish origin] | 3.9 | 4.4 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 0.82 |
Education [% completing high school or more] | 89.4 | 90.7 | 88.4 | 93.7 | 73.2 | 90.7 | 0.004 |
Employment status [% currently in labor force] | 16.8 | 68.6 | 72.3 | 74.4 | 65.9 | 66.5 | <0.001 |
Marital status [% currently married] | 60.2 | 62.1 | 56.3 | 60.1 | 61.0 | 89.5 | <0.001 |
Values are listed as mean (standard deviation) unless otherwise noted.
COHORT = Cooperative Huntington Observational Research Trial; HD = Huntington disease; (CAG)n = cytosine-adenine-guanine repeat length in the Huntingtin allele; UHDRS = Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale.
*P-values refer to overall tests of heterogeneity across all six groups.