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One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease
mmmscience brings us news of a new study, published in Nature Genetics by an international team of scientists, that tells a scary story: globally, 1% of the population carry a gene mutation that is almost guaranteed to lead to some form of heart problems. On the Indian subcontinent, the prevalence is 4%. The mutation is a 25-letter deletion of DNA data on the heart protein gene MYBPC3, believed to have arisen in India 30,000 years ago. The researchers say that the mutation wasn't selected out of the population because its effects don't occur until after the childbearing years. The article mentions a prediction that "by 2010 India's population will suffer approximately 60% of the world's heart disease."
...and that our designer was a racist and a dumbass.
MYBPC3 = MY Blood Pressure Crap Crap Crap
A mutant with 60+million descendants. Perhaps there is hope for me after all.
circulation issues are known to cause ED, but are also known to cause priopism.
I suspect the latter happened in this "mutant".
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I'd log in and mod him down, but I'm too busy touching myself -- still on my first heart, too!
This is why I only invest in racist insurance companies...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Why the hell is my left arm hurting?
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." --Redd Foxx
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You gotta admit, it sure beats dying sober.