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Fatal Familial Insomnia: No Sleep And Then You Die

Posted on 11. Apr, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Ok, relax! You DON’T have this. Only forty maybe fifty families world-wide are affected by this rare, I mean really rare, autosomal dominant genetic disorder. Genes inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion mean that offspring have a 50/50 chance of chance of being stricken with the disease. With Fatal Familial Insomnia [...]

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