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Until recently, the parents of one defective child had only two courses to follow if they wanted another baby. One was to trust to luck, worry throughout the pregnancy, and blame themselves if a defective child was born. The other was to have no child. Now, by using charts of...
Though genetics is an arcanely intricate science, the risks of unfavorable inheritance fall sharply and neatly into two groups. Dr. Fraser Roberts labels them, simply, the bad and the good. In the bad-risk group, the chance that a couple's next child will be born defective is at...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one...
* Red-green color blindness, transmitted by the x (female) chromosome, is far more common, affecting 8% of men and slightly more than .5% of women, but Dr. Fraser Roberts considers this "a harmless physiological variation."
Died. Roy Roberts, 79, grand old man of plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national...