With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn child carries a genetic mutation.
Daniel Navon calls this form of categorization "genomic designation," and in Mobilizing Mutations.
But what does this mean for the way we understand a person? Today, genetic mutations are being used to diagnose novel conditions like the XYY, Fragile X, NGLY1 mutation, and 22q11.2 Deletion syndromes, carving out rich new categories of Human disease and difference.
With every passing year, more and more people learn that they or their young or unborn child carries a genetic mutation