Two new books — “Mercies in Disguise” by Gina Kolata and “The Family Gene” by Joselin Linder — look at how individuals cope with devastating genetic diseases.

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    Given no more than five years to live, Blais set about ticking off his final bucket-list challenge: the annual "Ironman World Championship" in the US state of Hawaii. In October 2005, six months after ...
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    Genetic studies of diseases map segments of the genome driving disease. But to understand how those changes contribute to disease progression, it is important to understand how they may alter gene ...
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