Word: nyhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Nyhan of the University of California at San Diego and Roger Rosenberg of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas met with nearly 100 of Joseph's surviving relatives. They were able to assure those whose parents had escaped the disease that they ran no risk of developing-or passing on-the family ailment. But ten were found to have the disease, and 26 others-children of parents who have or had Joseph illness-may develop...
...eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, plus Dr. Lawrence Schut, a Minneapolis neurologist who is one of the unaffected members of the Swier family. With the family's permission, a crew from WCCO-TV of Minneapolis, Minn., flew in to film...