“Out of a million people, we hope to find handfuls that are unexpected heroes” (Image: Brian Smale for Â鶹´«Ã½)
Why do you want to find people who have genes for serious diseases?
We aim to find relatively healthy adults who have somehow escaped having the classical symptoms, because although they carry the faulty gene that would normally mean they get the disease, they also have something else protecting them – possibly another mutation. We know people who have made it to adulthood without any symptoms are going to be very rare. That’s why we are referring to them as…
