The disease is caused by a genetic defect that leads to bone marrow failure and a greater risk of cancers, such as leukaemia.

范康尼贫血症是由遗传缺陷引发的疾病，会导致骨髓功能衰竭，甚至更容易罹患癌症，例如血癌。

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Whether it’s because of a crash diet, general malnutrition or some genetic or biological defect, deficiencies in certain nutrients can cause hair loss.

无论是由于快速节食，营养不均衡还是一些遗传的或生理缺陷引起的某些营养物不足，均会导致脱发。

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Since he is not blind, and neither is his 15-year-old daughter, the project's researchers told him it seemed likely that something in his genetic makeup was compensating for the defect.

由于他目前并没有失明，并且他的15岁的女儿也没有失明，所以，工程研究人员告诉他，在他的基因组成中可能有某种因素弥补了这个基因缺憾。

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It's a single gene defect and we know exactly where the genetic defect is in sickle cell.

是一种单基因缺陷,而且我们准确地知道,镰状红细胞贫血的基因缺陷在哪里

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