Starting from a common ancestor: transmission, heredity, kinship and substances in an ethnography of Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

• Grant number: 22/12041-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: January 30, 2023
• End date: January 25, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques
• Grantee: Juliana Pereira Lima Caruso
• Supervisor: Janet Frances Carsten
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 19/02706-4 - On the tropeiro´s trail: relations and kinship in Li-Fraumeni's Syndrome in Southern and Southeastern Brazil, BP.PD

Abstract

The relationships, connections and kinship of people with Li-Fraumeni syndrome in Brazil, with special attention to the p.R337h variant, are the object of this project. It is intended to analyse, know and describe the relationships that are established between the carriers, within the scope of the Association of carriers of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome of Brazil and, also, how the elaborations around the kinships take place, especially considering that a common ancestor is attributed by geneticists to all carriers of the p.R337h variant. In addition to the figure of this common ancestor, this project aims, based on genealogies and genetic kinship, to think about the meanings and family arrangements that carrying this syndrome produces. (AU)