Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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With the father gone, Vasquez said, the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.

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Going back four generations, her family had suffered at least nine cases of genetic cancer, all on the paternal side.

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