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| Saudi project puts Arabs on genetic map | ||
| 2008-09-26 | ||
Saudi researchers have mapped the first Arab genome in a project to put the Arab world on the global genetic map and improve healthcare.
"The advantage of the project is that it studies the differences between peoples, and that will explain the spread of specific illnesses such as diabetes, heart diseases, etc.," said Saeed al-Turki, Arab Human Genome Project Coordinator. "Twenty-five percent of the Saudi population has, or is liable to have diabetes and that will form a big burden on health services," he said. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 I would think that unearned wealth is all the nurture required to explain epic cultural Saudi laziness. And that probably is a significant contributor to the diabetes thing, too. Why bother bringing genetic predisposition into things? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-09-26 16:36 |
| #14 Apostasy!!! If Allan had wanted them to know these things he would have put it in the Koran. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-26 12:10 |
| #13 I think they're mapping the genome of the Master Race. |
| Posted by: Fred 2008-09-26 11:46 |
| #12 They'll discover they're all going to have to marry non-Saudis in order to get rid of all the problems they've bred in over the centuries... and the dowries/brideprices will be high because nobody else wants to bring such problems into the family line. There is a peril in actually knowing; hence the penalty for eating that apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, back in the day. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-09-26 11:02 |
| #11 my thoughts exactly JFM. I predict this is how the wars of the future will be fought. Little merit on that. In the weeks after 9/11 I skimmed over a book who contemplated seval end of world scenarios. First one was Saudis using renegade western and japanese scientists to produce a virus targeted at everyone else. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-26 10:45 |
| #10 No, personally I do not. But a respected, professional medical opinion might convince doubting others. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-26 10:29 |
| #9 Why, Besoeker, do you think any confirmation is necessary? "Saudi project puts Arabs on genetic map" I'm more interested in dealing with the Saudi project that they have never been appropriately repaid for: 9/11. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-09-26 10:23 |
| #8 Lets hope the research exposes the DNA predisposition for LAZY! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-26 10:06 |
| #7 my thoughts exactly JFM. I predict this is how the wars of the future will be fought. |
| Posted by: Betty Grating2215 2008-09-26 10:00 |
| #6 Are they really sure they wanna open this box? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-26 09:53 |
| #5 That is one possibility but other possibility is to make a virus for killing everyone but Arabs. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-09-26 09:37 |
| #4 Excellent. Thanks for the information necessary to target a virus to kill the lot of you when we get fed up with your Arabia-supremacism. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-09-26 07:41 |
| #3 It's got a nice race based historical identity and "hooray for us" built into the project. All in all, just about what I'd expect from them. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-26 07:25 |
| #2 Islam and Arabic spread hand-in-hand. Islam, Arabic and polio. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-26 01:59 |
| #1 The Saudi family tree looks like a ball of yarn. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-09-26 01:38 |