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Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

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Do You Have a Recessive Genetic Condition?

There are certain conditions where it takes two to tango, is the way i talk about it. You have two copies of your gean, one from your mam and one from your dead. And for certain of these conditions, it takes these a genetic changes in both copies of the geans to cause a problem. When doctor chung says mischief, she's talking about auto somol recessive conditions. There are thousands that ganeticists know about. Most of them you've probably never heard of. But some of them are pretty well known and pretty serious, like siclso anemia or systic vibrosis.

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