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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nico Lethbridge

First signs before two-year-old diagnosed with rare chromosome duplication

Dottie’s Dup15Q was discovered in a blood test for Coeliac disease - (Gemma Loveridge/PA Real Life)

A mother-of-four from Cradley Heath, near Birmingham, has spoken of her two-year-old daughter's diagnosis with an extremely rare disorder, discovered by chance during an unrelated hospital visit.

Gemma Loveridge, 41, a full-time mother of four, noticed her youngest child, Dottie, born in December 2022, was not developing as the other children were after starting nursery.

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