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Oct 27, 2026
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Researchers find links between rare disease and Black Loyalist descendants in Nova Scotians
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and U.K., three to four per cent of the Black population has the gene.
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Researchers find links between rare disease and Black Loyalist descendants in Nova Scotians
After 15 years of seeing specialist after specialist with no diagnosis, James Brothers passed away. New research hopes to help detect the condition he had.
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By Emma Breton
Published Oct 27, 2026
The Brothers family, seen posing for a photo, carry a gene variant that could lead to developing hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.…
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