The Myth of the Genetically Sick African
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Why Has Medicine Always Gotten Race Wrong?
3. Racial Medicine and the Genetically Sick Negro
- Direct causation: allele A causes phenotype B;
- Epistatic effect: people who display phenotype B are more likely to survive and reproduce if they have allele A;
- Population subdivision: the population has several subpopulations, and phenotype B and allele A happen to be at high frequency in some of the subpopulations;
- Type I error: GWAS studies test large numbers of markers; by chance alone, 5% will be significant at p = 0.05 and 1% will be significant at p = 0.01;
- Linkage disequilbrium (LD): allele A marks a chromosome segment that contains a genetic marker that causes phenotype B.
4. Word on the Street Says …
4.1. Diseases with Genetic Causes
4.2. Diseases with Environmental Causes
4.3. Diseases of Homeostasis
4.4. Diseases Resulting from Lack of Maintenance
4.5. Diseases from Stochastic Developmental Problems
4.6. Diseases Resulting from Maternal–Offspring and Maternal–Paternal Conflicts
5. The Last Word
Funding
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Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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