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186. Why Do People Keep Having Children?

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The Relationship Between Optimism and Fertility

People who know that they may be genetically predisposed to Huntington's disease aren't less likely to have kids. Why, in your view, and from the data, do you believe that's true? So I think our view when we looked at the data on this, and again, this is something where we can see the fact but it's harder to see the interpretation," he says.

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