Subject: Genetics question
Date: Jan 16 08:50:52 1996
From: Serge Le Huitouze - serge at cs.sfu.ca



Hi there,

well, as usual, my message won't be about birds :-)
It might be interested to people interested in biology, though,
hence I decided to post it here.

I heard on the radio last weekent, that a Latin American man was seeking
a donor for a bone-marrow transplant that he urgently needs.

In order to maximize the probability of success of the transplant, so
says the radio, Latin American people were asked to donate some blood
in order to find a very close match to the petient's genes.

I always (well, not exactly always :-) thought that chances were equal
to find another person with similar gene material in other races (or
whatever you call them, sorry if I am not PC) than in one's own race.

Could some geneticist around enlighten me on this point ?

Thanks

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