The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
✍ Scribed by Linder, Joselin
- Book ID
- 109917288
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine
When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered a deadly blockage in her liver. Struggling to find an explanation for her unusual condition, Joselin compared the medical chart of her father--who had died from a mysterious disease, ten years prior--with that of an uncle who had died under similarly strange circumstances. Delving further into the past, she discovered that her great-grandmother had displayed symptoms similar to hers before her death. Clearly, this was more than a fluke.
Setting out to build a more complete picture of the illness that haunted her family, Joselin approached Dr. Christine Seidman, the head of a group of world-class genetic researchers at Harvard Medical School,...