DNA discoveries on rare disorders bring insight, angst to families

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DNA discoveries on rare disorders bring insight, angst to families

By AMY HARMON | The New York Times

December 31, 2007

The girls had never met, but they looked like sisters.There was no missing the similarities: the flat bridge of their noses, the thin lips, the fold near the corner of their eyes. And to the families of Napier, 14, and Taygen Lane, 4, there was something else, too. In the likeness was lurking an explanation for the learning difficulties, the digestion problems, the head-banging that had troubled each of them, for so long.http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-fladna1231sbdec31,0,3231083.story