[ExI] opinion

[William Flynn Wallace]

Mukherjee’s book goes into how Huntington’s chorea is wrapped around the
Human Genome Project.



Great book, excellent writer.



spike


Read it last year, I think.  Should have recommended it to the group, but I
get no feedback when I recommend and thus no reinforcement.  bill w

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:50 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
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> And what about Huntingdon's chorea?  It is so strongly genetic that
> nothing can change what it does to the carriers later in life- at least
> with current medical knowledge.  Nearly pure Nature.
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> bill w
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> Huntington’s chorea: I just learned what that is.  Fortunately for me, it
> isn’t by having been diagnosed or anyone that I know having been diagnosed.
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> I was listening to a recording on CD of a most excellent book, The Gene,
> by Saddhartha Mukherjee.  He has a chapter on the discovery of the origins
> of Huntington’s.  Excellent book.  It took a long time for western medicine
> to figure out Huntington’s because it is exceedingly rare in this part of
> the world.  But in two isolated Venezuelan villages, Anita Harding
> discovered several thousand cases, which led to its verification as an
> inherited condition.
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> Mukherjee’s book goes into how Huntington’s chorea is wrapped around the
> Human Genome Project.
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> Great book, excellent writer.
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> spike
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