Ep. 63 | The Broken Sequence

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A couple’s young sons both experience sudden reversals in their physical development, leaving doctors scratching their heads. Nobody understands what’s wrong, because on the surface, the boys seem perfectly fine. But to find the answer, they have to look much deeper.

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0:11.6	One morning in 2015, a scientist sat at his computer feeling a growing sense of confusion.
0:22.5	He was looking over the DNA samples of two little boys, brothers with a mystifying
0:26.9	illness that had left their parents frantic with worry.
0:30.4	The boys pediatrician had already ruled out a virus or bacteria or any other infection.
0:36.0	That left only one possibility. Something was wrong with their genes.
0:41.2	And the pediatrician was counting on this scientist to figure it out. It had taken the scientist
0:46.4	two months to compile his data as he painstakingly pulled apart billions of tiny pieces of the
0:52.9	boy's DNA. But now that it was all done, the
0:56.2	scientist realized he had found nothing. Everything looked totally fine. Nothing was broken,
1:02.8	nothing was missing, nothing looked strange. Disappointed, the scientist sent his finding to
1:08.7	the boy's doctor, apologizing for not discovering anything
1:11.9	helpful in their DNA. He knew that something was seriously wrong with both brothers. Yet,
1:18.3	genetically, they seemed like two perfectly healthy little boys.
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