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9/16/2008 12:25:39 AM

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"I have to say this. Knowing that you have the genetic predispositions that you and your husband do makes you pretty awful people to have a kid knowing the kind of medical trauma that they're certain to have to suffer through."

If it were something like cystic fibrosis, sure.

Try knowing what you're talking about. Especially given that the field of genetics is far from fully explored, it ought to have crossed your mind that, hey, maybe there was no way for them to know or find out what was going to happen? It's not like CF, where the inheritance is pretty well understood (relative to things like DGS)

9/16/2008 12:26:05 AM

Doctors previously thought that 90 percent of all DiGeorge patients had the same 22Q deletion. Dr. Markert, who has the largest sampling of DiGeorge Patients ever, has found that about half of her patients have this gene deletion. My husband and I have no such gene deletion. In fact, we have no known genetic issues. Birth defects are not all caused by genetics, many have to do with environs. And those that are genetic are often unique/spontaneous in the particular generation that they first appear.

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9/16/2008 12:29:55 AM