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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them - Kolata, Gina
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"If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you'd inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In [this book], ... Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable ...

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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them 2018, St. Martin's Griffin, New York

ISBN-13: 9781250064448

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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them 2017, St. Martin's Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781250064349

Hardcover