From: Entropyfoe@aol.com
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 16:06:10 MST
In a message dated 11/29/2002 4:48:56 PM Central Standard Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
It is Gilbert's syndrome, it is not considered a disease. Perhaps for the
reason it does not shorten average lifespan.
-Jay
I don't believe these studies would have been done. Even if 7% of the>
> population has the trait you are going to need a lot of people to get
> statistical significance. That sounds like an expensive study to me.
> There are something like 5000+ diseases in OMIM -- what fraction of
> those do you think longevity studies have been done on? I've never
> run across even a single example. Most of the time people are looking
> at how much a disease shortens lifespan.
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