[lit-ideas] Re: What's my number?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:15:50 -0500
This is like an Eliot rewrite. I love it. No idea about the mapping.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/1/2006 1:10:43 AM
> 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? Anyone here know about genetic mapping?
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
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