As the sentence before the one you quoted explains, this is not done for politics. It is done because clinicians have to be taken seriously by the parents of th

As the sentence before the one you quoted explains, this is not done for politics. It is done because clinicians have to be taken seriously by the parents of the child having a mutation in that gene. Saying "your child has a headcase mutation" ends up causing defensive reactions instead of discussing treatment. Maybe that is an irrational reaction on the parents' part, but not everyone is super rational the first moment they learn their child has an illness.