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Race and medicine Not a black and white question
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... cited by Neil Risch, the director of the Centre for Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, concerns ApoE, another gene involved in LDL ...
i am very into the genetics of alzhimers its one reason i do this .it concerns my wifes lines.i got into genealogy to see where i got my apnea which you can tell by a history of strokes and diabettes
tuns out to be my malones.
personaly i think race as a word is useless since the picture above doesn't look like an african but it is E3b1.
I Think it says in the followin paragraph one allee can be 6 or 28 a wider spread then i have seen before
In some cases, though, the difference clearly is genetic. A gene called UGT1A1 controls the metabolism of a colon-cancer drug called irinotecan. Approximately 20% of African-Americans, 15% of whites and 1% of Asians have two copies of a non-functional version of this gene called *28. Because individuals lacking functional UGT1A1 are at risk for serious complications if given the standard dose of irinotecan, genetic testing of patients before starting irinotecan therapy has become normal. Yet, while only 1% of Asians have two copies of the *28 allele, which is detected by the genetic test, 2.5% of Asians have another non-functional version called *6 which is not detected by the standard test. Indeed, it does not occur in blacks or whites. Thus, testing Asians for the *28 allele does not provide them with the same quality of care as it does for African-Americans or whites. Identical treatment is not, as Dr Risch puts it, equal treatment
let me see what you people think before i comment more
Race and medicine Not a black and white question
Economist (subscription) - UK
... cited by Neil Risch, the director of the Centre for Human Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, concerns ApoE, another gene involved in LDL ...
i am very into the genetics of alzhimers its one reason i do this .it concerns my wifes lines.i got into genealogy to see where i got my apnea which you can tell by a history of strokes and diabettes
tuns out to be my malones.
personaly i think race as a word is useless since the picture above doesn't look like an african but it is E3b1.
I Think it says in the followin paragraph one allee can be 6 or 28 a wider spread then i have seen before
In some cases, though, the difference clearly is genetic. A gene called UGT1A1 controls the metabolism of a colon-cancer drug called irinotecan. Approximately 20% of African-Americans, 15% of whites and 1% of Asians have two copies of a non-functional version of this gene called *28. Because individuals lacking functional UGT1A1 are at risk for serious complications if given the standard dose of irinotecan, genetic testing of patients before starting irinotecan therapy has become normal. Yet, while only 1% of Asians have two copies of the *28 allele, which is detected by the genetic test, 2.5% of Asians have another non-functional version called *6 which is not detected by the standard test. Indeed, it does not occur in blacks or whites. Thus, testing Asians for the *28 allele does not provide them with the same quality of care as it does for African-Americans or whites. Identical treatment is not, as Dr Risch puts it, equal treatment
let me see what you people think before i comment more
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