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He didn't "discover" it, but he was the first to publish an accurate description of the disease that now bears his name.

He was the son of a physician, and then himself becamse a physician, who had the opportunity to observe several generations of people with the disease, which allwed him to draw conclusions about inheritance as well as symptoms.

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