From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 02:45:21 MST
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:29:15AM -0800, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> One number that blew my mind was that 7.5% of Swedes have hemochromatosis.
Yes, we seem to have a pool of unusual alleles at high concentrations
up here - several unusual mental aberrations, some schizophrenia genes,
a bit of seasonal affective disorder and of course hemochromatosis. The
wonders of genetic purity - enriching the recessives ;-)
http://www.scripps.edu/bcmd/pdfarea/issue_09_98/mercier.pdf suggests
that since 5.6% of Bretons have the mutation it confirms their celtic
origins.
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