[lit-ideas] Re: What's my number?
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:56:19 -0800
>Anyone here know about genetic mapping?
ck: If you'd like, and with your permission, I could forward the relevaant
parts of your e-mail to my son the Berkeley geneticist. He probably knows.
Carol
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From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] What's my number?
> Okay, so about ten years ago, I signed up to be a bone marrow donor. Every
> year, I got a happy holidays card from the bone marrow donor association.
>
> On Monday, I got a "URGENT, You May Already Be a Winner, OPEN IMMEDIATELY"
> letter. There's a match. Someone in New Jersey needs a bit of my bone
> marrow. So sometime in the next few weeks, it may happen. The association
> told me to just play it safe until then: no race car driving, etc., and
> stay in touch. I gave them all of my cell phone numbers, etc.
>
> Anyway, I was chatting with them, and they told me that they use ten
> numbers now to do genetic mapping. Out of curiosity, I asked if they would
> tell me those numbers. They said sure, and they sent me the numbers. She
> said "now you can track anyone in history and see if they're a relative."
>
> It's like "47"; I know the number, but what's the question? For example,
> there's "DRB1 Molecular 0301, 0701."
>
> Is that good? I mean, of course I'm above average, and if anyone has 0701,
> it's me, but, what does that mean? > yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
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