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It sounds like a great tool to use to soften the blow when telling the child. "Hey Timmy, we got our results back, and we found out you have the Sonic the Hedg
by uoaei 4y ago
It sounds like a great tool to use to soften the blow when telling the child.
"Hey Timmy, we got our results back, and we found out you have the Sonic the Hedgehog gene. It might be scary but if you can be as brave and tough as Sonic everyone will be very proud of you."
Try to remember what it is like to be a child.
- tadfisher 4y agoI would hope they have the SHH protein, all animals do.
- uoaei 4y agoSorry, meant to refer to mutations in the gene, as in GGP's comment.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoI am vicarially embarrassed for you because of your lack of tact and life experience.
- uoaei 4y agoBased on my vote count I think your opinion represents the minority.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoAs I said, too many techbros without tact or life experience on this site. Geneticists moved away from silly names because physicians found that mothers who had just given birth to a severely disabled child did not take the silly names well. It's one thing to work in fly genetics and another to be talking to a parent whose child has a mutation in the human homolog. This is actual experience from clinicians working in genetic counseling. I am still embarrassed for you.
- uoaei 4y agoI wasn't talking about the parents, I was talking about the children. Yes I can understand that the parents would get pretty upset.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoSHH is a basic morphogen, we are looking at severe neurodevelopmental disorders, the children are gravely disabled.