What is "fanconi"

Usage examples of "fanconi".

Over time, Fanconi children also come to sound alike, with a deep, mechanical note in their voices, the result of the androgens they take to keep the illness at bay.

The best chance to save a Fanconi child is a bone-marrow transplant from a perfectly matched sibling donor.

Many Fanconi parents have conceived second children to save their first, hoping that luck would bring them a match.

Flipping from page to page, she landed on a photo of a Fanconi face and saw in it the face of her newborn daughter.

Among the general population, one of every 200 people has a Fanconi mutation.

Fanconi anemia, but they both knew how to navigate a medical database, and within days they found Arleen Auerbach, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York and the keeper of the Fanconi patient registry in the United States and Canada, a list that contains about 800 names.

Of the eight separate genes that can mutate and cause Fanconi anemia, Molly and Henry both had Type C, which bares its teeth early and kills often.

Auerbach has seen too many children with this same Fanconi mutation whose blood fails, with little prior warning, at age 5.

Jack Strongin Goldberg was free of Fanconi and was not even a carrier of the disease, so there was no chance that he might pass it on to his own children.