This book draws from 14 years of clinical work on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), my current focus after 30-plus years of medical genetic evaluation of patients–27,000+ of them–having intellectual disability syndromes with autism and/or multiple birth defects. The book opens with one of 21 patient stories in a Skinny Section overviewing the symptoms and genetics of EDS/Long COVID, introduces the reader to basic genetics and then genomics in a Science Section, and details how complex symptoms can be correlated with DNA variation found by whole-exome sequencing in its Substance Section. The general reader will learn how complex diseases, modeled by EDS and long COVID19, can be understood by relating symptom patterns to disease mechanisms and their causative gene sequence changes. Patients and physicians who are specifically concerned with EDS should go to the medical website www.EDSDrWilson.com where information handouts are available and online evaluations for EDS can be scheduled. Contact golderwilson@gmail.com for questions.
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