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Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (Reprint Edition) by Alice Wexler Paperback, 319 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-520-20741-6 / 0520207416 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20741-7 / 9780520207417 In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of |