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Army rejected teen over breast-cancer gene [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl40ex5rrnkoArmy rejected teen over breast-cancer gene
38 minutes ago
BBC
Only a genetic test will tell Carys if she has inherited the Brca1 gene from her mother, Rachael
A 17-year-old has been rejected by the Army, despite passing all the selection tests, because two members of her family have had breast cancer.
Carys Holmes has a 50-50 chance of inheriting a gene fault from her mother but has not been tested for it yet.
A lawyer says the Army’s actions could be discriminatory and a serious own goal.
The Army said it was reviewing Carys’s case.
[...]
38 minutes ago
BBC
Only a genetic test will tell Carys if she has inherited the Brca1 gene from her mother, Rachael
A 17-year-old has been rejected by the Army, despite passing all the selection tests, because two members of her family have had breast cancer.
Carys Holmes has a 50-50 chance of inheriting a gene fault from her mother but has not been tested for it yet.
A lawyer says the Army’s actions could be discriminatory and a serious own goal.
The Army said it was reviewing Carys’s case.
[...]
Purely incidentally to this story, "a serious own goal"? Is that a U.K. idiom?
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