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...Twelve disorders that I see here are founder-gene defects carried by the dozen families that established this population 300 years ago," observes Dr. D. Holmes Morton, 47, a pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered, is glutaric aciduria, a metabolic deficiency that usually strikes children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Often triggered by childhood illnesses such as chickenpox or strep throat, it can cause permanent brain injury that can lead to chronic disability, medical complications and even early death...
...Morton's introduction to glutaric aciduria and the Amish came one night in 1987 while he was on duty in the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A fellow physician, Dr. Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster County. At the time, Danny was alert but had no control over his arms or legs--signs of cerebral palsy, which was Nichter's medical specialty. Morton's testing revealed a metabolic fingerprint that could be caused only by glutaric aciduria, a disorder that had previously been reported only eight...
DUDLEY (12%)1. Diana L. Adair '982. Alex Myers '003. Chris Morton...
...number of nannies came through Park House and later Althorp, where the children moved with their father in 1975. According to biographer Andrew Morton in Diana: Her True Story, the future 9th Earl did not sit down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining room until he was seven. The arrival of a new mistress in 1977 brought no burst of happiness to the manor. Charles first discovered that his father had married Raine, the former Countess of Dartmouth and daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, from his headmaster at boarding school. He and Diana quickly came...
Meanwhile, Tarses, who divides her time between a house in Pacific Palisades and Morton's rented place in Malibu, was preparing for a weekend off in the Hamptons, before heading back to Los Angeles to set about proving that she's the right person for the toughest programming job in TV. "It's about the shows," she says. "All this other stuff just gets in the way." The question is whether the shows will do their job before all the other stuff will...