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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."
Looks like its time to bail on those life/health insurance stocks.
If our elected representatives no longer represent us, do we still live in a Democracy?
You're going to die of heart disease, and I'd imagine there are many more mutations that we haven't found yet.
well if you approached it using statistics rather than reality, yes.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Yeah but imagine get work done in an office of pastel coloured toga wearers. That's a competitive disadvantage.
Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.