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Industrious Dad Finds the Genetic Culprit To His Daughters Mysterious Disease

First time accepted submitter bmahersciwriter writes "Hugh Rienhoff has searched for more than a decade for the cause of a mysterious constellation of clinical features in his daugther Bea: skinny legs, curled fingers and always the specter that she might have a high risk of cardiovascular complications. He even bought second hand lab equipment to prepare some of her genes for sequencing in his basement. Now, he has an answer."

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  1. Re:95% die, not survive by quacking+duck · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Dammit, a key word got deleted during editing. Most got it from context I think, but it definitely should have read:

    he had a type of pancreatic cancer that 95% of victims wish they had, i.e. the treatable, survivable kind of pancreatic cancer