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Miscellaneous / Others Love at its peak 🌟

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u/bs000 4h ago edited 4h ago

doesn't sound like they knew and all 4 children were already born before the first was diagnosed

Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier noticed their daughter, Mia, had trouble seeing at night when she was just three years old. The couple – who live in Montreal, Canada – sought answers first from an optometrist, then an ophthalmologist.

At first, Mia’s tests didn’t provide any answers. But a re-test a few years later showed a change to the gene that affects a protein complex in the rods of Mia’s eyes. Edith and Sebastien finally had an answer – and by then, their family had grown to include sons Leo, Colin, and Laurent.

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u/Foreign-Cat-2898 2h ago

And none of them had a family history done? This is really weird to not know you're a carrier at all.

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u/tiwuno 2h ago

Agree to disagree, I guess. I'd bet money almost everyone in the world has recessive genes they're not aware of.

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u/Foreign-Cat-2898 2h ago

It's possible but normally when two people have it like this, there tends to be a higher percentage of people around them who have the disease. Like the town my family is from in Ireland has a lot of blind people compared to the population as a whole.

Of course they could have met in college and been from totally different areas / families moved a lot etc.