Hundreds of families share a lethal inheritance. This kidney researcher hopes to break the chain

Hundreds of families share a lethal inheritance: a rare genetic mutation that causes life-threatening kidney disease and has no cure. This researcher hopes to break the chain.

Autumn Steen roiled in the pew of the chapel, Bowditch Union Free Will Baptist Church — the one she could see from home, the house of God she knew so well she could get in with a spare key.

If I just pray hard enough, none of this will happen, she thought. At just 17, she was unable to grasp that this had already happened. Her dad, Tommy Bruce Carroll, was dead.

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