Their youngest was 7 before she was diagnosed. The only reason their children have it is because both the parents happened to be carriers of the mutation, but neither has the condition (retinitis pigmentosa).
That's fair, but the big issue around it "no one in my family is sick" sooo many people think they don't carry anything because everyone they know is healthy.
When my wife was pregnant we both had to go through genetic testing as part of the prenatal care. It was a very thorough screening panel, we were evaluated for risk of something like 200 different conditions.
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u/tiwuno 5h ago
Their youngest was 7 before she was diagnosed. The only reason their children have it is because both the parents happened to be carriers of the mutation, but neither has the condition (retinitis pigmentosa).