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13 - Adventures in Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2025

Anne Buckingham Young
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Abstract: As they continued to work together, Anne and Nancy Wexler became closer friends. Anne, Jack, Jessie, Ellen and Nancy traveled to Peru to conduct more research along with other Venezuela-trip veterans such as Graciela Penschensadeh (an Argentinian), Maria Ramos (a Spanish geneticist), Ira Shoulson and Fidela Gomez (an Argentinian nurse). They arrived in Lima in the middle of the night and Dr. Cuba (the Lima neurologist who knew the HD families) met us at the airport and took us to the Hilton Hotel. The next day, they rented two Toyota pickup trucks. They traveled south to the Cañété Valley where they found a hotel. They spent two weeks going up and down the valley, from town to town and house to house finding, questioning and examining families affected by Huntington’s disease. To keep Jessie and Ellen busy, Anne gave them the job of photographing people in the HD families and writing their names on the back. They had just received Polaroid cameras for Christmas that they used. By the end of their trip, Anne and the rest of the team discovered that their hotel was a money-laundering operation complete with four-star rooms, restaurant, pool and laundry.

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Disorderly Movements
A Neurologist's Adventures in the Lab and Life
, pp. 230 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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