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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