A mother's dread: Passing on a destructive gene


KUALA LUMPUR: The test was positive.

Haliza Md Kasim’s eyes widened. Despite having gone through this before with her first son, Yusof, and despite the doctors explaining that this was a genetic disease affecting boys, inherited from their mother - somehow, she had hoped that her two-month-old Irfan would escape this fate.

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