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Inbreeding Genetic diseases cost Arabs USD 13 bln a year
2007-12-23
(KUNA) -- Patients with genetic diseases cost the Arab world USD 13 billion annually, a medical expert said on Saturday. Ghazi Omar Tadhmori, Assistant director of the Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS), affiliated to the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, said genetic diseases in the Arab region had increased the burden on the health institutions. In his lecture on genetic diseases in the Arab countries delivered at the Arab Gulf University, Tadhmori noted that health figures show that such diseases were on the rise in the UAE, Bahrain and Oman. There are more than 240 genetic diseases in the UAE, 114 in Bahrain and 250 in Oman, a matter that prompts fresh ideas on the genetic variation of that geographically small region. More data will be gathered about the rest of the Arab countries over the coming years. Interim statistics suggest there are about 850 genetic diseases in the Arab world, that could exceed 1,000 when data collecting is completed, he said.
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#14  Btw, Todd Browing is the (tallest) guy being hug.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-12-23 11:04  

#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  

#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   2007-12-23 09:40  

#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   2007-12-23 09:11  

#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   2007-12-23 08:03  

#9  that's genetic JUSTICE for ya....
Posted by: Frank G   2007-12-23 08:00  

#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  

#7  If they ain't that subtle how come most people keep ignoring 'em?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2007-12-23 04:55  

#6  %s/inbr/crossbr/g

There, fixed it.
Posted by: gorb   2007-12-23 04:11  

#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  

#4  Not that subtle, g(r)om.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-12-23 02:12  

#3  No kidding indeed - factor cultural practices as an exponant to such disorders.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2007-12-23 02:12  

#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  

#1  Thin skin and hemophilia - gooble gobble gooble gobble.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2007-12-23 00:18  

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