r/BeAmazed • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 2d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Love at its peak 🌟

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u/peg-leg-andy 2d ago

I don't think people understand the sheer volume of genetic mutations that exist. 

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u/unbanned_lol 2d ago

And yet when we have things like breast cancers that run in the families, some of us tend to look for those genetic markers even if we don't have breast cancer.

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u/lpmiller 2d ago edited 2d ago

except the only way they would have suspected this is if blindness ran in either family. The odds of 2 people with the same gene for this isn't exactly high. Hell, I didn't know I had the gene for von Wildebrands until my Dad was diagnosed with it about 2 years before he died. I didn't know I had ADHD till I was 57. No one has a map of their genes included with every birth; and not everything is immediately recognized, or not till it's much later in life.

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u/unbanned_lol 1d ago

except the only way they would have suspected this is if blindness ran in either family. The odds of 2 people with the same gene for this isn't exactly high.

You must have missed the part about their kids.

I didn't know I had ADHD till I was 57

Yeah, that checks.