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In reply to the discussion: Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus [View all]hack89
(39,171 posts)32. Multifactorial polygenic diseases
the incident of certain disease varies considerably by race. You cannot argue that genetics is a significant determinant as to what kind of diseases you will get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health#Multifactorial_polygenic_diseases
So you have to look at each halogroup to determine how it differs from the others and why that difference is significant for each disease. If a given disease acts differently with a particular halogroup then you might have to have a unique treatment for that group. If 99 percent of that particular group happens to have dark skin then that means that people with dark skin will have to treated differently than people with lighter skin.
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Look, it's like thinking if a dog has brown hair, then you know something about it's metabolism.
bemildred
Apr 2012
#17
But two individuals from seperate groups may require different treatments for the same disease.
hack89
Apr 2012
#35
Right, and we've been mixing them all together rapidly for the last 500 years.
bemildred
Apr 2012
#23
There is no evidence that any of those events have impacted the human genome. nt
hack89
Apr 2012
#29
I wouldn't say millions of years, more like about 100 to 50 thousand years ago when humans...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2012
#37