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Wexler tells two stories, the one of her family's emotional odyssey after her mother was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, and the relentless efforts to find the gene and a cure, and the news that she had a 50/50 chance of getting it also. This book comes from her unique position of being both reporter of how scientists sought a cure and someone who could be saved by it.Wexler, Alice R. is the author of 'Mapping Fate: A Family at Risk Confronts a Fatal Disease' with ISBN 9780812917109 and ISBN 0812917103.
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