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To: ChicagoHebrew
I am currently teaching my students about human genetics. Tay-Sachs is one of the autosomal recessive diseases we discussed thanks for the interesting insight into the possible effect of the founders' effect!
4 posted on 01/12/2006 10:38:41 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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The Ashkenazi Jewish population has often been studied by experts in human genetics because of the accumulation of some 20 recessive hereditary disorders that are concentrated in this population, the authors wrote.

Google "Hermansky-Pudlak Ashkenazim" and "oculocutaneous albinism Ashkenazim".

8 posted on 01/12/2006 10:59:31 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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