Great!
This is great news.
What I don’t know from the information presented is whether the DNA marker only predicts you’ll get the illness or whether it can actually fix the problem. Sickle-cell, for example, is a genetic problem but there’s no cure for it.
If it is genetic, is that marker evident in a newborn? And why does Type II not manifest itself until later in life if it is genetic?
Yes, the information may be a breakthrough but it doesn’t help all that much unless some treatment is found that reverses or negates the condition.
Later
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