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Your doctor isn't going to screen you for sickle cell if you're white. Do italians, greeks, arabs, and other mediterreanean europeans count as white? Because
by aswanson 18y ago
Your doctor isn't going to screen you for sickle cell if you're white.
Do italians, greeks, arabs, and other mediterreanean europeans count as white? Because doc should take a look at them too, I think:
http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/EMHJ/0506/09.htm http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/EMHJ/0506/09.htm
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/chromosome/sca.shtml http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/c...
- space_cowboy 18y agoExceptions that prove the rule, because of historical migration and trade patterns that link those areas. Identical recurrent mutations in the human genome are rare. Do you believe that if you took a mitochondrial DNA sample from an Indian, a Chinese person, a person of European descent, and an African living in America that a researcher would not be able to tell the difference?
- tokenadult 18y agoExceptions that prove the rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=sicklecelldisease http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=sicklecelldisease
- aswanson 18y agoNot sure, depends upon the specific case -- probably correct in a wide, stochastic sense. Immaterial, though. I was merely refuting your incorrect statement in the GP.