PPT Slide
In the early 1980’s Paul Delwaide of Leige, Belgium told me
that he had recently described a case of “Kennedy’s disease”.
When asked to explain he said that it seemed like a good
idea to place my name on the disease.
Shortly thereafter Lewis “Bud” Rowland, who was then
the editor of Neurology remarked to me that KD was
receiving a lot of attention.
The attention to Kennedy, Alter, Sung was because of papers
by Dr. Kenneth Fischbeck and colleagues, who discovered the
causative trinucleotide CAG repeat on the androgen