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2007-12-23 Science & Technology

~~Inbreeding~~ Genetic diseases cost Arabs USD 13 bln a year

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Posted by Fred 2007-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Thin skin and hemophilia - gooble gobble gooble gobble.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-23 00:18|| 2007-12-23 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 And those are just the gross physical aberrations. Now think, more subtle---psychological, heritable disorders.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-23 00:21|| 2007-12-23 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 No kidding indeed - factor cultural practices as an exponant to such disorders.

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-23 02:12|| 2007-12-23 02:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Not that subtle, g(r)om.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-23 02:12|| 2007-12-23 02:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Who says they aren't breaking ground in the medical field?

"When you gene pool is a relecting pool, you might be ..."

"When you plot your family line in 1 dimension, you might be ..."

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-12-23 02:50|| 2007-12-23 02:50|| Front Page Top

#6 %s/inbr/crossbr/g

There, fixed it.

Posted by gorb 2007-12-23 04:11|| 2007-12-23 04:11|| Front Page Top

#7 If they ain't that subtle how come most people keep ignoring 'em?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-23 04:55|| 2007-12-23 04:55|| Front Page Top

#8 If they ain't that subtle how come most people keep ignoring 'em?

It isn't PC polite to notice!

Posted by Elmoque Dingle5648 2007-12-23 07:05|| 2007-12-23 07:05|| Front Page Top

#9 that's genetic JUSTICE for ya....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-12-23 08:00|| 2007-12-23 08:00|| Front Page Top

#10 The picture makes me sad and happy at the same time. It's from a documentary? Freakshow brings up too much current stuff on google.

Posted by Thomas Woof">Thomas Woof 2007-12-23 08:03|| http://www.cybernations.net/]">[http://www.cybernations.net/] 2007-12-23 08:03|| Front Page Top

#11 The giant dirty secret of all these "quaint cultures," and one of our best hopes in the long run. What's a high birth rate worth when the genetic pool's only a fraction of a centimeter deep?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-12-23 09:11|| 2007-12-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, when you don't learn, you don't learn. Compare this with the change in the incidence rate for Tay-Sacks in the Jewish population since reliable carrier testing became available in the 1970s.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-12-23 09:40|| 2007-12-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Re th epic, why, it's from Todd Browing's "Freaks" (aka "la parade des monstres" when I first saw it in that old movies slot around midnight on FR3/F3, many moons ago), of course!!!

A website I like about the subject, well done and not sordid :

The Human Marvels Vindicating those once labeled as freaks

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-12-23 11:03|| 2007-12-23 11:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Btw, Todd Browing is the (tallest) guy being hug.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-12-23 11:04|| 2007-12-23 11:04|| Front Page Top

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