Translations:AY Honors/Heredity/Answer Key/60/en

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  • Color-blindness
    • Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, and Bob Dole, Former Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. These two ran against each other in the 1996 Presidential election, and during their debates, the colors normally used had to be changed to accommodate them both.
  • Cystic fibrosis
    • Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer, died from the illness in 2007
    • Frankie Abernathy, actress in Real World: San Diego, died in 2007
    • Lisa Bentley, Triathlete
  • Down syndrome
    • Stephane Ginnsz, actor (Duo (film)) First actor with Down syndrome in the lead part of a motion picture.
    • Chris Burke, actor (Life Goes On) and autobiographer
    • Andrea Friedman, actor (Life Goes On), guest appearances on many other shows
    • Pascal Duquenne, actor (Le Huitième Jour aka The Eighth Day, Toto le héros aka Toto the Hero)
    • Anne de Gaulle (1928-1948), daughter of Charles de Gaulle
  • Hemophilia
    • Ryan White, famous for his struggle against AIDS. Ryan had hemophilia and got AIDS from the blood-clotting medicine he took.
    • Queen Victoria was a carrier of Hemophilia B. Two of her five daughters were also carriers and married into other royal families in Europe. They passed Hemophilia through various royal families such as Spain, Germany, and Russia. This is why Hemophilia is known as the Royal Disease. Her son Leopold died from a fall made fatal by Hemophillia.
    • An extensive list of famous hemophilics.
  • Parkinson's Syndrome (formerly referred to as Parkinson's Disease)
    • Michael J. Fox - Actor
    • Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) - Former heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist.
    • Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
  • Huntington's Disease
    • Woody Guthrie
  • Sickle Cell Anemia
    • Tiki Barber - American Football Player
  • Spina bifida
    • Olympian and eight-time Boston Marathon winner Jean Driscoll[1]
    • 1980s rock star, John Mellencamp
    • Welsh Paralympian, Tanni Grey-Thompson
    • U.S. country music singer, Hank Williams
  • Tay-Sachs disease