DNA and Heart Disease in Whites
According to this Article on CNN,Whites have a mutation on then DNA that gives them a greater chance of threat Disease.
From the article:
“Both teams used a new method of combing the genome for disease genes called a genome-wide association study, which was not possible until the full human genome was published in 2003. Now scientists can map the DNA of people with a disease, compare them to this template genome or to people without a disease, and find what is different.
The two studies, using 40,000 people, found the same thing — a stretch of DNA called 9q21 carried certain mutations in people with heart disease. It is an area that had not previously been identified as a gene, which may make it more difficult to determine how it causes disease, scientists said.”
Lets hope scientists use this information to help people reduce their risk of Heart Attacks. Lets also hope Insurance companies don’t use this information to deny coverage, hike rates or any of their usual ideas.
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