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Some 150,000 Americans are estimated to have either the dominant or recessive gene that causes Alport syndrome, named after a South African physician, Arthur Cecil Alport, an expert on malaria, who wrote about the mutation in 1927 in The British Medical Journal.

For Olsen, the part of the shy, recessive Christina felt more distanced from her recent roles in the series “Love & Death” or as part of the extended Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Cockayne syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective DNA repair mechanisms.

In a study that spans more than a decade, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have looked at generations of families in a specific population to reveal the role newly inherited DNA variants play on recessive disease traits, and in the process, they have created a population specific database revealing unique DNA information unseen in larger cohorts.

Coban-Akdemir, who worked in the Lupski Lab at Baylor where the research was conducted, says this is an important part of the findings because it reveals how genes act within different populations and clans to contribute to different recessive genetic disorders.