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    Question: What is the name of the disease they named after you

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    Asked by Wally West to Matthew on 4 Mar 2017.
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      Matthew Bainbridge answered on 4 Mar 2017:


      It’s called Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome. Dr. Ropers is a geneticist in Germany and he co-discovered the disease with me. He is quite famous (I am not) so I think it’s funny his name is stuck to mine.

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