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A: A hereditary condition which can cause lung disease in adults and liver disease in people of all ages.

Alpha-1 is solving crimes - on TV that is

Last week’s episode of the new TNT crime show Rizzoli & Isles features Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.

In fact, Alpha-1 is the key to solving the crime.

Rizzoli & Isles is about the friendship between two women, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Coroner Maura Isles, and their teamwork in solving criminal cases.

The episode starring Alpha-1 is called “Money for Nothing”.

The eldest brother in a wealthy Boston family is found in the harbor dead after an apparent sailing accident. But this wouldn’t be a crime show if it didn’t turn out to be a murder.

And how does Alpha-1 come in?

Almost at the very end of the show, Isles reveals a fact that suggests a motive for murder—and proves that one of the “brothers” in the family wasn’t really a brother, after all.

One of the brothers had Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (apparently a ZZ) and another brother had no Alpha-1 genes. So they couldn’t really be brothers, right?

An Alpha doc would likely find all this over-simplified, but hey, this is a TV drama. And Alpha-1 DOES get credit for helping to solve the crime. What more can we ask?

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