Last autumn, I wrote about planting mums and got an e-mail from Australia saying I was so funny.
MUMS are mothers there.
Our VERY best wishes go to you and yours in this turn of the Millenium. Many of the cases evaluated have a condition that is unique to that individual. We comment among ourselves that if a professional is diagnosing genetic conditions at a higher rate than that, they are misdiagnosing. As the Human Genome project completes its mission in 2003, all the genes will be identified, and maybe then we can do better jobs at diagnosing when we know what gene caused the problem. Even then, an alteration in the DNA that causes a disorder or condition can happen only once in that individual without ever seeing it again.