1. A body clock that confuses day and night causes some symptoms of a rare genetic defect, scientists say. 2. In colon cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis is very strongly associated with the FAP gene, but it is a rare defect. 3. A hormone produced in fat cells can be used to help people lose weight, according to a study of an obese child with a rare genetic defect. 4. Bone marrow transplants traditionally are performed to fight cancer or to correct rare genetic defects. 5. The last of four brothers born with a rare genetic defect that left them appearing to be female underwent surgery Sunday to fully become a boy. 6. The last of four siblings born with a rare defect that left them appearing female but genetically male underwent surgery Sunday to become a boy. |
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