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How genetic discoveries reshape relationships and identity

My husband and I both tested positive for being carriers of a lethal genetic condition after our baby died and now I don't know if we're still the same people who fell in love before we knew we could create death.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Learning of one's capacity to pass on fatal conditions fundamentally alters self-perception and the meaning of intimate partnership.

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“Where Are You with Rare and orphan conditions?”

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