[alexander_busek]

A newly discovered gene defect among people of Inuit ancestry in Greenland, Canada and Alaska will possibly lead to [...]

A little qualification and quantification would have been nice!

"...among SOME people of Inuit ancestry..."

or

"...among ONE in TEN THOUSAND people of Inuit ancestry..."

Regards,

[ConservativeMind]

From the write up at the link:

“It turned out that 1 out of 1500 had inherited the gene defect from both parents and were therefore extremely susceptible to viral infections and vaccines with live viruses such as the MMR vaccine.”

Those with one copy make up 2.4% - 3.4% of the Inuit population. I got that from the actual study. To put it back into your desired example, that means up to “ONE in TWENTY-NINE.”

I can't put everything in a 300 word excerpt.