A version of this story first appeared in the Sept. 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Rob Ashe's daughter was 4 days old when he first saw the word "arthrogryposis," written on her incubator in the Nicu. Elliot, now 4, had been born with severe contraction in her major joints, resulting in extremely low muscle tone. Only one in 3,000 newborns has the condition. "There still isn't a ton of research," says Ashe, an Emmy-nominated editor on TBS' Conan. Geneticist Dr. Judith G. Hall, who has studied arthrogryposis extensively, had one big piece of advice for Ashe when she learned
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- 9/15/2014
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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