/oss/taxonomy/term/3925/all en /oss/article/inbreeding-behind-stigma <p>It just didn’t make sense.</p> <p>I was working in a genetics laboratory, and we were trying to find the mutated gene that caused a particular disease that was common in a few families my supervisor had seen in the clinic. But in one family, it looked like the oldest child had an entire stretch of chromosome that neither the mother nor the father had. We were only looking at that stretch, but it was quite possible that half of that child’s genetic material came from someone who was not, on the paper I was looking at, their father or mother. I had found my first case of non-paternity.</p> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:44:38 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 10903 at /oss /oss/article/health-general-science/they-say-its-genetic-my-parents-dont-have-it <p>When we’re told a condition we have is “genetic”, it’s tempting to think it means our parents had it, and their parents before them, all the way up to some mysterious Eve-bites-the-apple event. But if you’re told you have muscular dystrophy and your parents don’t have it, what’s going on? A trip to IKEA may help answer that.</p> Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:18:12 +0000 Jonathan Jarry, MSc 7795 at /oss