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Published online 30 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.226
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What Lincoln had
John Sotos reckons that Abraham Lincoln had a rare, cancer-causing genetic disease. Brendan Maher talks to him about the diagnosis, and the ghoulish hobby of posthumous study.
Scientists have long speculated about the health of the sixteenth American president Abraham Lincoln, whose long, lanky features were reminiscent of the genetic disorder Marfan syndrome, and whose melancholy hinted of depression. Now, John Sotos of Palo Alto, a cardiologist, rare-disease hobbyist (and consultant for the television series House M.
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