You get covered in spots when the sunlight hits your skin. There are only 800 people in the world that have it, four of them are in the United States, and one of them is an 11 year old boy from Cleveland, Ohio. It is a reccesive allele. Can you identify this disease?

MrsAce

xeroderma pigmentosum http://www.xps.org/xp.htm Dec 04 04, 12:16 PM

Arpeggionist

The symptoms can be much worse. In the most severe cases, cancer starts to develop as a result of exposure to any more than the dimmest of lights. People who have this disease generally don't live very long, which is one of the reasons for it being so rare. Dec 04 04, 3:46 PM

infiniti

Dean Koontz wrote a couple of good thrillers where the protagonist suffers from this disease. Seize The Night is one of them. random trivia for you... Dec 04 04, 8:50 PM

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