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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eleanor Fleming

Siblings among seven people worldwide diagnosed with incurable disease

Two children from the same family are among seven confirmed cases worldwide with an incurable ultra-rare disease.

In November 2022, Mel Dixon, 46, and her husband Charlie, 47, received “the heartbreaking news” that two of their three children – Tom, 15, and Rosie, 10 – carry a mutation of the DHDDS gene.

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