Chapter Four, Fate
Huntington's Corea is used to discuss the use of a particular sequence on Chromosome Four to cause tramatic health consequences. The search for the chromosomal source of this and other related diseases is discussed through the work of Nancy Wexler,someone who may have inherited the gene but who turns to scientific work to study it in others.
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“‘Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)