In this episode research geneticist and author Susan Liebman joins us to tell the personal and scientific story behind her memoir The Dressmaker’s Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret.

Susan unpacks generations of silence around heart disease and how sudden deaths and a decades-long family history of dilated cardiomyopathy led her to the discovery of an FLNC gene mutation (a "founder variant" most prevalent in Ashkenazi Jewish families) which revealed both risk and opportunity for preventing sudden cardiac death.

Top 3 takeaways listeners will learn:

• Why dilated cardiomyopathy can be hereditary and how to get free genetic testin ...