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Old 08-08-2014, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Danzig View Post
so sorry that their daughter has this and that they're having to go thru all that.

i watched the video, will do my best to share.
Thanks. Reading about the condition was interesting- it's genetic, but not hereditary. And it's on the X chromosome only- a mutation on one of them. The additional normal X chromosome in a girl is why girls it's more prevalent in girls- boys with the mutation on the X usually die shortly after birth.
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