Physicians first learned of family G in 1913 when pathologist Aldred Warthin, MD, published, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the family’s story. The deceptively dry title alerted readers to a potentially extraordinary discovery: “Heredity With Reference to Carcinoma as Shown by the Study of the Cases Examined in the Pathological Laboratory of the University of Michigan, 1895-1913.”
Since then, the tale of family G has been well documented in the medical literature: In the