Jill Viles, an Iowa mother, was born with a rare type of muscular dystrophy. The symptoms weren't really noticeable until preschool, when she began to fall while walking. She saw doctors, but they couldn't diagnose her or supply a remedy. When she left for college, she was 5-foot-3 and weighed just 87 pounds.
How she would spend her time there turned into part of a remarkable story by David Epstein, published in ProPublica in January. Viles tore through her library's medical literature and came up with a self-diagnosis—Emery-Dreifuss, a rare form of muscular dystrophy—and she was right. Then she came across photos of a female Canadian Olympic hurdler, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, and she realized that, despite the hurdler's muscular frame, she still displayed some of the same physical characteristics—similarly prominent arm and leg veins, peculiarly missing fat, and the same separation between butt and hip muscles. Eventually, in a slow, roundabout way, Viles managed to contact Lopes-Schliep and confirm that they shared the same type of partial lipodystrophy, Dunnigan-type. By comparing their genomes, scientists could determine that both women had a mutation in the same gene, though they were mutated in different ways—explaining, perhaps, why Viles'…
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