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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Lucy Laing & Amanda Killelea

'Rainbow baby' almost killed by own DNA beats the odds after 'magic' donor found

Brave little Leo Reed means the whole world to his parents Claire and Ollie in more ways than one.

Because he’s the only known person on the planet with a particular genetic sequence in his DNA that almost killed him.

And it took a liver transplant to save Leo at only five months old after he was diagnosed with an illness described by a top consultant as “an extremely, extremely rare condition”.

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