A Gifted Young Patient Seeks His Own Genetic Flaw   Finding the Faulty Gene's Fellow Travelers   "Jumping" Toward the Gene   Discovering the Gene for Cystic Fibrosis   Seeking New Treatments   Who Should Be Tested?
		Kinships That Hold Clues to Disease
		The Human Genome Project
		30 New Mutations per Lifetime   Why Some Genetic Disorders Are So Common   The Genetic Recipe for Making Proteins
		Dominant Disorders: A Fifty-Fifty Chance   Recessive Disorders: One Chance in Four   X-linked Disorders: Males Are at Risk   Two Kinds of Disorders, Two Kinds of Proteins
		What Gene Is At Fault?   What Protein Does It Make?   Can The Protein or Gene Be Replaced?
		Knocking Out Genes to Mimic or Cure Disease   Cancer As a Genetic Disease
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