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NYT article: What’s Behind Many Mystery Ailments? Genetic Mutations, Study Finds

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by TrixieStix, Mar 20, 2018.

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    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/...referer=https://getpocket.com/recommendations

    "With a database of electronic health records and DNA samples, a team of scientists has found that 3.7 percent of patients in a hospital system carried a genetic variant linked to a disease. It’s possible that as many as 4.5 percent of cases of apparently nongenetic diseases, from infertility to kidney failure, are the result of such mutations....."
     

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