No donor yet for boy whose family got Extreme Makeover home

No donor yet for boy whose family got Extreme Makeover home


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SOUTH JORDAN -- There is still no bone marrow match for a South Jordan boy whose family is getting a new home, courtesy of Extreme Makeover.

Jonah Gomez, 7, and his family just moved into their brand new home built in the Daybreak community for a taping of the show "Extreme Makeover Home Edition."

But perhaps even more important than the house is finding a bone marrow donor for Gomez, who has sickle-cell anemia.

People working on the house and fans at a Real Salt Lake game have been swabbed to see if they are a match. Now the search for a donor is expanding down the family tree.

The Utah company Ancestry.com helped by finding 100 living relatives. No word on whether any of them are a match.

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