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Old December 20th, 2013 #1
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[different exercise results for black and white women due to genetics]

No, Black Women Aren't Bad at Diet and Exercise

For years, the problem had researchers flummoxed — why, in weight loss trials that require participants to diet and exercise, did black women have consistently less dramatic results than their white counterparts? Now, one group of researchers purports to have the answer: it's not that black women aren't trying; it's that it's actually physically more difficult for them to lose weight.

New research published today in the International Journal of Obesity indicates that when it comes to weight loss, metabolic differences between black and white women are at fault for observed differences in the results that the two groups achieve from diet and exercise. Previously, researchers speculated that maybe black women simply weren't trying as hard as their white counterparts ("Maybe they're lazy!" being a more popular guess than "Maybe their bodies use energy differently!" is fucked up).

But now it seems that the problem is that black women have to try harder to get the same results as white women, because black women's bodies metabolize fewer calories when they exercise.

The researchers found that the African-American women lost about seven pounds fewer than the Caucasian women, even though their starting body mass index, or BMI, measures were comparable and they followed as closely to the calorie restriction and activity prescriptions. But the African-American women had lower resting metabolic rates and expended less energy daily than the other group.
In other words, more efficient energy expenditure means that it takes more driving to run the tank dry. So to speak.

Researchers noted that these findings offer important insight into how doctors should approach weight loss with black women differently than they'd approach it with their white patients, whom were ostensibly not assumed to be lazy by the professionals charged with treating them.

http://jezebel.com/no-black-women-ar...ise-1486692033
 
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[comments on the story above]

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This reminds me - my mom works with surgical patients and she said that black women (and maybe men, can't remember) are more sensitive to the anesthesia. They struggle to come out from being "under." I believe doctors take into account your racial makeup when figuring out dosages. Yesterday 4:47pm


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Black and Hispanic men and women are also much more susceptible to glaucoma and have thinner corneas (which is also related to proclivities for glaucoma). It's a really difficult area of medicine though (studying differences between different population groups), because you have to spend half your time keeping the racists out. Yesterday 4:53pm
 
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Your Ethnicity (Race) Determines the Species of Bacteria That Live in Your Mouth


Everyone has a unique “fingerprint” of oral bacteria species, and new research shows that it correlates with genetic and ethnic factors.

In recent years, scientists have found out all sorts of remarkable things about a group of creatures that are entirely invisible to the naked eye: the trillions of bacteria that colonize every surface of our bodies.

These organisms—collectively known as the microbiome—deeply affect our health, governing our intake of fat, our likelihood of developing allergies and even how often we get bitten by mosquitoes.

New science, though, is indicating that the relationship goes both ways. These microorganisms affect us, but our underlying genetics also control which species of bacteria are able to thrive in and on our bodies.

One of the most striking examples of this was published today in the journal PLOS ONE. In the study, a group of researchers from Ohio State University analyzed the species of bacteria that lived in the mouths—either in saliva, on tooth surfaces or under gums—of 192 volunteers.

By sequencing all of the bacterial DNA present in a sample swabbed from each person’s mouth, the researchers detected 398 different bacteria species in total. Each volunteer, on average, harbored 149 different species of oral bacteria.

But perhaps the most interesting finding was that there was a tremendous amount of diversity between individuals—only 8 species were present in every single participant’s mouth. “No two people were exactly alike. That’s truly a fingerprint,” Purnima Kumar, the study’s lead author, said in a press statement.

This bacterial diversity, though, wasn’t entirely random: It correlated with the ethnic group of the volunteer. In other words, people from each of the four different ethnic groups represented in the study (all participants self-identified as either Caucasian, African-American, Chinese or Latino) generally had similar species of bacteria, especially underneath the gums.

As a result, simply by counting which varieties of bacteria appeared in this area, the researchers developed a model that was able to guess a person’s ethnicity with an accuracy significantly better than chance—it got it right 62 percent of the time. Some groups were even easier to identify via the bacteria than others: It could correctly identify Latinos 67 percent of the time and African-Americans with 100 accuracy.

The variation along ethnic lines, they believe, is a reflection of genetics, not environment. That’s because, if you assumed that the mouth microbiome is totally dependent on environmental factors, you’d expect that members of the same ethnic group would have different mixes of bacteria depending on whether they were first-generation immigrants to the U.S. or had family histories that stretched back generations in the country. Instead, people’s background—in terms of foods they ate and other lifestyle trends—didn’t seem to have any correlation with the bacterial communities in their mouths. But their ethnicity and thus their similar genetics matched their microbiome more often than chance.

Interestingly, the original goal of this research wasn’t to find new differences between people from different ethnic groups, but to examine the bacterial traits shared between people with good oral health (the researchers are mostly from OSU’s School of Dentistry). But when the researchers analyzed the data, they were struck by the ethnic similarities. Although they sampled bacteria from all regions of the mouth, those found under the gumline had the strongest correlation to ethnicity (and thereby genetics), likely because they’re the least disrupted by environmental factors such as diet or smoking.

The surprising ethnic finding could yield benefits for oral health. The fact that people of different ethnicities harbor different sorts of oral bacteria could lead to medical treatments that are tailored to a patient’s genetic background. If research eventually reveals that someone with certain oral bacteria species in high quantities is predisposed to certain ailments, for example, he or she could be proactively screened for these diseases.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/scie...in-your-mouth/
 
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http://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ident...keletalremains

If it’s dead—especially if it’s human or another primate—then forensic anthropologist Bruce Wheatley, Ph.D., can probably tell you a lot about it. That’s because Wheatley, a professor in the Department of Anthropology at UAB, also works for the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office and the Alabama State Medical Examiner’s Office as a consultant specializing in the identification of skeletal remains.

By careful study of the bones, Wheatley can determine—with astonishing accuracy—the age, sex, race, and stature of the deceased, as well as many other facts about the person’s lifestyle and culture.

“Basically, I’m handed a bag of bones and asked to tell somebody what’s in it,” Wheatley says. Right away that puts him at a bit of a disadvantage.

“I could be a lot more help if I were present at the excavation site,” he explains, “because the site itself can help me tell right off whether the bones are human, and whether there are certain pieces—teeth, for example—that should be collected to determine factors such as race. As a forensic scientist, I’d like to get more anthropologists with backgrounds such as mine involved earlier in the process of identifying skeletal remains.”

Making a Picture
Forensic anthropology, Wheatley says, is one of the best-known applications of physical anthropology. A good forensic anthropologist has to be skilled in a lot of things—including archaeological field techniques, functional anatomy, human paleontology (fossils), and paleopathology (ancient diseases). All of the above can come into play when Wheatley begins to “make a picture of who someone was.”

The first step is what forensic anthropologists call “doing the big four”—identifying age, sex, race, and stature.


Age, says Wheatley, is determined in a young person by the length of the bones, the extent of fusion of the epiphysis (the caps on the ends of long bones that fuse completely with the bones after the age of 20), and the status of the teeth, which anthropologists refer to as dental eruptions.

“If the skeleton is over the age of 20, we use other techniques,” Wheatley says. The epiphysis on the sternal end of the clavicle, for example, fuses around the age of 30. The sternal ends of the fourth rib change as people get older. “If you look at the depth of the pitting on that rib, you can pinpoint age fairly accurately—plus or minus two years,” he says.

After the age of 30, Wheatley says, “you go by the signs of deterioration. You start seeing lower back problems, bones becoming less dense and more porous, increases in little arthritic projections, work-related injuries, and so on.”

Gender can be readily identified by examining the pubis bone, which is elongated in women to allow for childbirth—although the skull, too, is a good indicator, Wheatley points out. “It’s true that men have big heads,” he laughs. “Females are usually smaller and more delicate. You can get an 85- or 90-percent probability on sex from the skull.” In fact, Wheatley usually begins his examination with the skull, because so much can be determined from it.

Race is a much more complex issue. And it’s getting more complex all the time, Wheatley says. “Just walking around the UAB campus, I see so many signs of increased racial mixing,” he says. “For example, every day on the street I see white students with high cheekbones”—a sure sign, he says, that the races are becoming less and less distinct as the planet’s population moves toward a multiracial citizenry.


For that reason, racial identification these days is kept to the basics—white, black, Asian, or Native American, based on distinctive characteristics of the skeleton, regardless of what the person’s skin may have looked like.


Determining stature is a matter of applying a mathematical equation called a “regression equation” to the measurement of the femur, or thigh bone, which is the longest bone in the body. This data is combined with a similar measurement of the tibia, or lower shinbone, to provide a very accurate estimation of height.

Data on the Dead
Once Wheatley has finished his examination of a skeleton, he transmits his data to a national forensic skeletal data bank. The data bank serves as a resource for scientists such as Wheatley in two important ways. First, it provides an overview of the American population, which is changing all the time. The data demonstrate the changing racial profile of America, for example, as well as the fact that people just keep getting bigger. The other important function of the data bank is that it allows scientists to compare the results of their examinations with data in the bank and thus determine the probabilities of accuracy of their results.

But how do scientists tell if a set of remains are those of a specific person? “It’s largely a process of elimination,” Wheatley says.

When he begins an examination, Wheatley prefers not to know anything about the case. “It can bias you,” he explains, “and it’s best to look at the remains objectively. I usually don’t know much in advance anyway; I submit my report and then hear the story at the end.”

Typically, he looks at the skull first, to determine age and then sex. In some cases, he compares the skeletal DNA to DNA from the mother. Sometimes injuries can be matched to X rays or diseases traced to scars on certain bones. Lines on the teeth, for example, can indicate that the person took antibiotics at a particular time.

If a skeleton is an ancient one, much information can be gleaned from careful study of the bones. The bones of the upper body, for example, are affected in specific ways by the growth of musculature, indicating upper-body strength. Particular kinds of injury to the fingers suggest heavy or difficult manual labor, and certain anomalies in teeth indicate that rough material such as ground stone was mixed with food eaten by the deceased. Cultural artifacts found in context with the skeleton are the most useful indicators of the bones’ overall age. “If you find a pop-top,” Wheatley says, “you know the person died after 1962.”

Pieces of a Puzzle
In the nearly 20 years since Wheatley moved to Alabama from the San Francisco area, he says he has “seen it all” during the course of his forensic work. “There are all kinds of people out there doing all kinds of things,” he says simply.

Although Wheatley doesn’t like to dwell on the oftentimes gruesome nature of his work, he has, he says, been asked to participate in investigations of satanic rituals and has examined skulls covered with wax drippings and burnished to a smooth, mellow patina—a sign of repeated handling. He has also examined bones brought home as trophies of war by veterans of active military duty.

Some of Wheatley’s sadder assignments have required him to help identify particular people who are missing and believed dead. A few years ago, for example, he examined the bones of a young boy lost on a camping trip. “Another time,” he says, “there was an explosion at a manufacturing plant on the west side of town. One man never turned up afterward. The police finally brought me one piece of bone and asked me to tell them whether it belonged to the man. All I could determine was that it was a male human shoulder bone. Eventually, authorities decided it must have been the man, because he never turned up.”

Interestingly, Wheatley says Alabama is at the forefront of forensic anthropological testing and is a leader in establishing a statewide DNA bank. UAB was one of the first universities in the country to establish a forensic DNA program.

But why would anyone be drawn to the study of bones—especially given the sometimes bizarre nature of the work? Wheatley ponders the question and finally says in his characteristically matter-of-fact style: “I guess I’ve always just loved a good puzzle.”
 
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http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/04/26/9530.aspx

A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic.

The lead article in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association, examined 10 categories of research evidence from around the world to contrast "a hereditarian model (50% genetic-50% cultural) and a culture-only model (0% genetic-100% cultural)."

The paper, "Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability," by J. Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario and Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley, appeared with a positive commentary by Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, three critical ones (by Robert Sternberg of Yale University, Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan, and Lisa Suzuki & Joshua Aronson of New York University), and the authors' reply.

"Neither the existence nor the size of race differences in IQ are a matter of dispute, only their cause," write the authors. The Black-White difference has been found consistently from the time of the massive World War I Army testing of 90 years ago to a massive study of over 6 million corporate, military, and higher-education test-takers in 2001.

"Race differences show up by 3 years of age, even after matching on maternal education and other variables," said Rushton. "Therefore they cannot be due to poor education since this has not yet begun to exert an effect. That's why Jensen and I looked at the genetic hypothesis in detail. We examined 10 categories of evidence."
  1. The Worldwide Pattern of IQ Scores. East Asians average higher on IQ tests than Whites, both in the U. S. and in Asia, even though IQ tests were developed for use in the Euro-American culture. Around the world, the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; and for Blacks about 85 in the U.S. and 70 in sub-Saharan Africa.
  2. Race Differences are Most Pronounced on Tests that Best Measure the General Intelligence Factor (g). Black-White differences, for example, are larger on the Backward Digit Span test than on the less g loaded Forward Digit Span test.
  3. The Gene-Environment Architecture of IQ is the Same in all Races, and Race Differences are Most Pronounced on More Heritable Abilities. Studies of Black, White, and East Asian twins, for example, show the heritability of IQ is 50% or higher in all races.
  4. Brain Size Differences. Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.
  5. Trans-Racial Adoption Studies. Race differences in IQ remain following adoption by White middle class parents. East Asians grow to average higher IQs than Whites while Blacks score lower. The Minnesota Trans-Racial Adoption Study followed children to age 17 and found race differences were even greater than at age 7: White children, 106; Mixed-Race children, 99; and Black children, 89.
  6. Racial Admixture Studies. Black children with lighter skin, for example, average higher IQ scores. In South Africa, the IQ of the mixed-race "Colored" population averages 85, intermediate to the African 70 and White 100.
  7. IQ Scores of Blacks and Whites Regress toward the Averages of Their Race. Parents pass on only some exceptional genes to offspring so parents with very high IQs tend to have more average children. Black and White children with parents of IQ 115 move to different averages--Blacks toward 85 and Whites to 100.
  8. Race Differences in Other "Life-History" Traits. East Asians and Blacks consistently fall at two ends of a continuum with Whites intermediate on 60 measures of maturation, personality, reproduction, and social organization. For example, Black children sit, crawl, walk, and put on their clothes earlier than Whites or East Asians.
  9. Race Differences and the Out-of-Africa theory of Human Origins. East Asian-White-Black differences fit the theory that modern humans arose in Africa about 100,000 years ago and expanded northward. During prolonged winters there was evolutionary selection for higher IQ created by problems of raising children, gathering and storing food, gaining shelter, and making clothes.
  10. Do Culture-Only Theories Explain the Data? Culture-only theories do not explain the highly consistent pattern of race differences in IQ, especially the East Asian data. No interventions such as ending segregation, introducing school busing, or "Head Start" programs have reduced the gaps as culture-only theory would predict.

In their article, Rushton and Jensen also address some of the policy issues that stem from their conclusions. Their main recommendation is that people be treated as individuals, not as members of groups. They emphasized that their paper pertains only to average differences. They also called for the need to accurately inform the public about the true nature of individual and group differences, genetics and evolutionary biology.

Rushton and Jensen are well-known for research on racial differences in intelligence. Jensen hypothesized a genetic basis for Black-White IQ differences in his 1969 Harvard Educational Review article. His later books Bias in Mental Tests (1980) and The g Factor (1998), as well as Rushton's (1995) Race, Evolution, and Behavior, show that tests are not biased against English speaking minorities and that Black-White-East Asian differences in brain size and IQ belong in an evolutionary framework.
 
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[this is from our very own federal government...serving minorities on our dime]

<---------DHHS - Office of Minority Health. Is there an Office of...oh forget it.

Obesity and African Americans

- African American women have the highest rates of being overweight or obese compared to other groups in the U.S. About four out of five African American women are overweight or obese.

- In 2011, African Americans were 1.5 times as likely to be obese as Non- Hispanic Whites.
- In 2011, African American women were 80% more likely to be obese than Non-Hispanic - White women.
- In 2007-2010, African American girls were 80% more likely to be overweight than Non-Hispanic White girls.

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templa...t.aspx?ID=6456
 
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FDA Approves BiDil Heart Failure Drug for Black Patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil (bye-DILL), a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine.

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is weakened and does not pump enough blood. It can be caused by a variety of damage to the heart, including heart attacks, high blood pressure, and infections.

The approval of BiDil was based in part on the results of the African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT). The study, which involved 1,050 self-identified black patients with severe heart failure who had already been treated with the best available therapy, was conducted because two previous trials in the general population of severe heart failure patients found no benefit, but suggested a benefit of BiDil in black patients. Patients on BiDil experienced a 43% reduction in death and a 39% decrease in hospitalization for heart failure compared to placebo, and a decrease of their symptoms of heart failure.

"Today's approval of a drug to treat severe heart failure in self-identified black population is a striking example of how a treatment can benefit some patients even if it does not help all patients,” said Dr. Robert Temple, FDA Associate Director of Medical Policy. "The information presented to the FDA clearly showed that blacks suffering from heart failure will now have an additional safe and effective option for treating their condition. In the future, we hope to discover characteristics that identify people of any race who might be helped by Bidil."

BiDil is a combination of two older drugs, neither approved for heart failure--hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate.

As an anti-hypertensive agent, hydralazine relaxes the arteries, and decreases the work of the heart. The anti-anginal agent, isosorbide dinitrate, relaxes the veins as well as the arteries. Isosorbide seems to work by releasing nitric oxide at the blood vessel wall, but its effect usually wears off after half a day. Hydralazine may prevent this loss of effect. But how the two drugs work together is not fully known.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsro.../ucm108445.htm

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F.D.A. Approves a Heart Drug for African-Americans

By STEPHANIE SAUL
Published: June 24, 2005

The Food and Drug Administration took a controversial step toward a new frontier of personalized medicine yesterday, approving the first drug ever intended for one racial group, African-Americans.

The drug, a heart failure therapy called BiDil, makes it easier for the heart to pump by relaxing blood vessels. A study of 1,050 African-American heart failure patients showed that BiDil reduced deaths by 43 percent.

No one is sure why BiDil works better in blacks than in other races, but scientists theorize that it is because BiDil increases the body's levels of nitric oxide, a naturally occurring compound. Many heart failure patients suffer from a deficiency of nitric oxide, but the deficiency is more common in African-Americans.

Although the BiDil label will say the drug is for self-identified black patients, many cardiologists believe BiDil will work for many people of other races as well. [Covering their asses] Wall Street is factoring use of the drug by people of other races into its forecasts for BiDil. Analysts' sales predictions range from $500 million to $1 billion by 2010.

An estimated five million Americans, 750,000 of them black, suffer from heart failure, a debilitating and frequently fatal condition in which the heart is weakened and does not pump enough blood.

"In the future, we hope to discover characteristics that identify people of any race who might be helped by BiDil," said Dr. Robert Temple, the F.D.A.'s associate director, in a statement yesterday announcing the drug's approval.

The drug's maker, NitroMed, of Lexington, Mass., has said that a sales force of 195 people and a batch of BiDil tablets are ready and that it will begin marketing the product almost immediately. The sales force will focus on doctors who are known to treat African-American heart failure patients.

The tablets are being manufactured for NitroMed by Schwarz Pharma Manufacturing, of Seymour, Ind.

BiDil is a combination of two generic drugs that are already available - hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate. Because taking the combination would be convenient, the company does not expect its franchise to be undermined by the generic competition. NitroMed has not yet disclosed the price of the drug.

BiDil was endorsed last week by an F.D.A. advisory panel of outside experts. But controversy surrounded the discussions. Geneticists worried that, by approving a drug for one group, the F.D.A. was using race as a crude shortcut for genetic typing.

On another, more philosophical level, critics said that endorsing a drug for one race gave official government imprimatur to the discredited notion of race as a biological category. [Discredited by who?]

Several influential black political and scientific groups embraced BiDil, however, as a way to redress years of inequality in medical treatment and outcomes. NitroMed reached out to several of those organizations, recruiting the Association of Black Cardiologists to help organize its clinical research. The company paid the association $200,000.

BiDil was the discovery of Dr. Jay N. Cohn, a University of Minnesota cardiologist, who in the 1970's began experimenting with vasodilators, or vessel-widening treatments, for desperately ill heart failure patients.

Dr. Cohn organized studies of the drug in veterans hospital patients in the 1980's and found that it reduced mortality. But the F.D.A. denied BiDil's approval in 1997 after determining that Dr. Cohn's results were not statistically significant.

In 2001, the F.D.A. said that BiDil could be approvable as a treatment for African-Americans, but only if a study confined to African-Americans clearly showed a reduction in mortality.

BiDil is meant to be taken three times a day, in addition to the heart failure medications patients already take.

Artificial Heart Is Not Endorsed

WASHINGTON, June 23 - (AP) Government scientists on Thursday narrowly rejected the first fully implantable artificial heart, saying they were unsure if a few extra months of life outweighed the serious side effects.

The AbioCor artificial heart, made by Abiomed of Danvers, Mass., has been tested in only 14 patients. Two died immediately. The rest survived about five months. Many patients had severe strokes that compromised their final days.

One patient lived 17 months. His family and one other family told advisers to the Food and Drug Administration that the heart provided priceless extra time. But the advisers wanted more testing to determine just which dying patients should be offered a chance to try the heart.

The F.D.A. is not bound by its advisers' recommendations, but usually follows them.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/he...rugs.html?_r=0
 
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Race matters when a patient needs a stem cell or marrow transplant
By Arthur Allen, E-mail the writer

If you become ill with a blood cancer or other disease that requires a stem cell transplant, here’s an uncomfortable fact: Your race matters. Diversity is a strength in much of life, but it’s a curse when finding a stem cell donor match. [That's so uncomfortable. It's giving me cognitive dissonance having to think about it. Your race: your extended family.. matters? Ow it hurts, make it stop! This goes against everything I've been brainwashed to think in public school and through jewish television!]

For a successful transplant, donor and recipient must have nearly identical genes regulating certain immune cells. These genes evolved in response to the disease threats people faced long ago. “Tell me where your ancestors lived 500 years ago, and I’ll tell you who your potential donors are,” says Jeffrey Chell, an internist who leads the National Marrow Donor Program, also known as Be The Match.

African Americans have the most diverse genetics because their ancestors have been around the longest and because of intermixing with whites, Native Americans and Hispanics since Africans arrived in the Western Hemisphere. When all of humankind’s relevant genes are considered, there are 10 billion possible combinations. That means that “if your ancestors were on two or three continents,” Chell says, “it’s going to be harder to find a match.”

Genetics make the mathematics difficult for people of color. Cultural traditions, mistrust of medicine and ignorance about the need for donors make it worse.

“I didn’t know anything about bone marrow transplants until I learned that I might need one,” says Anthony Thomas, 49, a financial consultant from Ran*dalls**town, Md., who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Among his African American friends and colleagues, there’s little awareness of the importance of donating, he says, although “you can bet that if Lil Wayne or Beyoncégot leukemia, that would change.”

“People tell me, ‘I’m praying for you,’ ” says Thomas, who spent July 18 on Capitol Hill lobbying against the sequestration of federal funds that have helped Be The Match enroll donors. “I tell them, ‘Prayer is great, but if you want to help me, start a donor drive at your church.’ ”

Thomas may not need a transplant for three to five years, he says. The situation is much more dire for Nina Louie, 33, whose parents are of Chinese descent and who has some Thai ancestors. She is suffering from advanced lymphoma, and chemotherapy is no longer an option.

Sorority sisters mobilize

Ironically, Louie and nine of her sisters in an Asian American sorority joined a stem cell registry 15 years ago as freshmen at Stanford University after learning that cancer patients of Asian descent lacked adequate donor options for transplants. Today, those nine women are battling to save their beloved sorority sister.

In two months, they have helped enlist nearly 8,000 potential donors through a social marketing campaign and ads on 350 billboards across the country. The message: “Save Nina.” The drive, which is aimed particularly at Asians and Asian Americans but asks everyone to register, has located potential donors for three other patients, all of Asian descent. But it has not yet turned up one for Louie. Hospitalized near her home in Los Angeles after 14 rounds of chemotherapy, she is spending as much time as she can with her husband, Matt, and their 2-year-old son, Donovan.

 
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If you think race is just a skin color, you're not only on the wrong side of history, you're on the wrong side of science. Discuss… Today 3:39am

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Niggers with less melanin. Black albinos:



Do these look like any white people you've met?

Now they have 'white privilege' .. and by white privilege I mean that their fellow voodoo niggers are more likely to murder them and mash their body parts into magic potions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persec..._with_albinism
 
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terist77UErin Gloria Ryan41L U
oh, guess race isn't just a social construct after all. who'd have thought. Thursday 5:42pm

[hmm...somehow that comment was allowed into the white area. comments they hate are apartheided into the grey area, if they appear at all - which is incredibly ironically funny, but not to these hypocridiots]


gaslightweightUErin Gloria Ryan11L U
kind of creepy that you are saying there are real, physiological differences in race, which is just a social construct. That is a slippery slope. Thursday 7:56pm

[now this one i like. it is too subtle for me. i can't tell if the poster is ironically mocking or actually believes her plain statement. i guess the former. well...i hope the former. either way it works.]


kruzr ClausUErin Gloria Ryan81L U
Spidey-Sense for Racists... TINGLING.

Denise Duffield-ThomasUmiche the killer11L U
The weirdest thing I found about pole dancing is that there was literally no correlation between size and ability. Skinny, fat, in between...

I SUCKED AT IT - despite dancing for a long time. Coordination doesn't mean shit at pole - and then there were girls who were amazing on the pole, but do a bit of dancing on the floor and they were super unco-ordinated. Thursday 7:29pm


CatFiveHimmicaneUDenise Duffield-Thomas1L U
Well, you're good at sucking, and that's an important skill too. Just now

[whotf throws in some unrelated crap about pole dancing into an earnest discussion of why dem nigra gals be so damn plump]

StarrcrUErin Gloria Ryan21L U
Well, I'm terrible at both diet and exercise, yet I still managed to lose 30lbs in the last year. How do you explain that science? Thursday 4:55pm


CatFiveHimmicaneUStarrcr1L U
You don't know how to read a scale? Just now

GeneralReasonUErin Gloria Ryan1L U
Black women have superior metabolism from an evolutionary standpoint (more efficient use of stored energy = you live longer during hard times). Suck it racists!

Serious Side Note: It's not really 'black women' it's 'women who carry certain genes most commonly found in an ethnic group that we define as black'. Genetics drives these things, not skin color. Thursday 9:17pm

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HowlingfantodsUErin Gloria Ryan1L U
This is me being a bit naive here,from a science point of view, but what does this look like when a population is "black" for all intensive purposes but ethnically mixed? Thursday 6:07pm

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justsomedude1313UErin Gloria Ryan11L U
this is not new, it has to do with being ready for a famine. it is the same reason Hispanics have diabetes. The Good thing is, when they start taxing food, non white people will do fine. we are made for long periods of a lack of food. suck it white people. Thursday 5:24pm

NeairaUErin Gloria Ryan1L U
How do we reconcile studies like this (and all the mass of other anecdotal and studied racial differences described in other comments), with the equally widespread insistence you hear from various writers and thinkers now, that race is just a myth, or imaginary? Yesterday 2:07pm


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By abandoning our belief that race is a social construct. And accepting that it's a biological reality. I wonder who was lying to us, and why? Just now

MoralltachUErin Gloria Ryan1L U
But…this study would indicate that there are fundamental biological differences between white people and black people, and that can't be right. EVERYONE IS EQUAL AND TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE IS RACIST. Yesterday 1:04pm

steveignorantUErin Gloria Ryan131L U
Just remember that all these biological differences between races that scientists keep finding absolutely have no effect on intelligence, concentration, temperament, culture, etc. Thursday 4:55pm

[that's the best comment they allowed thru, gets 13 stars]

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European domination is a product of the free money europe got through exploiting the americas. It dates about 500 years back. Before that, muslim empires dominated europeans, mongol empires dominated muslim empires, and so on. Thursday 8:00pm

[ok, that resolves the question. by her repeating valdez's partyline explanation for Euro success we see that she in fact was not being ironic above, as i guessed and hoped, but was dead serious. at least she's smart enough to recognize that admitting any physical basis to race undermines the social-construct position. so maybe there's a little hope for her.]

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http://hubpages.com/hub/TEETH-Clues-To-Your-Ancestry

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11424074

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Tissue contributions to sex and race: differences in tooth crown size of deciduous molars.

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This study describes size of constituent deciduous tooth crown components (enamel, dentine, and pulp) to address the manner in which males characteristically have larger teeth than females, and the observation that teeth of American blacks are larger than those of American whites. Measurements were collected (n = 333 individuals) from bitewing radiographs using computer-aided image analysis. Tissue thicknesses (enamel, dentine, pulp) were measured at the crown's mesial and distal heights of contour. Deciduous mesiodistal molar crown length is composed of about 1/7 enamel, 1/3 dentine, and 1/2 pulp. Details differ by tooth type, but males typically have significantly larger dentine and pulp dimensions than females; there is no sexual dimorphism in marginal enamel thickness. Males scale isometrically with females for all variables tested here. Blacks significantly exceed whites in size of all tissues, but tissue types scale isometrically with blacks and whites with one exception: enamel thickness is disproportionately thick in blacks. While the absolute difference is small (5.56 mm of enamel in blacks summed over all four deciduous molar tooth types vs. 5.04 mm in whites), the statistical difference is considerable (P < 0.001). Aside from enamel, crown size in blacks is increased proportionately vis-à-vis whites. Principal components analysis confirmed these univariate relationships and emphasizes the statistical independence of crown component thicknesses, which is in keeping with the sequential growth and separate embryonic origins of the tissues contributing to a tooth crown. Results direct attention to the rates of enamel and dentine deposition (of which little is known), since the literature suggests that blacks (with larger crowns and thicker enamel) spend less time in tooth formation than whites.
 
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Niggers with less melanin. Black albinos:



Now they have 'white privilege' .. and by white privilege I mean that their fellow voodoo niggers are more likely to murder them and mash their body parts into magic potions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persec..._with_albinism
A couple of these nigs used to come by and play ball when I was in college. They are scary ugly. You'd think they could get lots of acting work for all these shitty horror/zombie movies, don't need any makeup.

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Those alb nigs still get that nasty skin thing blacks often have, then you can't tell if they've got acne or it's just mottled reverse coloring.
 
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The only people who seriously believe that race doesn't exist biologically are white believers in the secular religion of social welfare liberalism. The "race doesn't exist" position is so obviously intellectually bankrupt, that it generally attracts those most naturally predisposed to cognitive dissonance and religious belief. The whole business is reminiscent of Orwell's 2 + 2 = 5; the underlying principle is Goebbels' maxim: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

The purpose of mass indoctrination in multicultural ideology, which is heavily dependent on globalist control of the MSM for its dissemination, is to get whites celebrating their own genocide in their own countries. Since race doesn't exist, it won't matter if we, the members of parliament, flood white neighborhoods with non-whites; since race doesn't exist, you won't mind if your son or daughter has a hard time finding a summer job because all the fast food restaurants are staffed with worthless niggers and smelly pakis.

OTOH non-whites know what race they belong to and have no problem assigning others to their proper racial categories. When whites become minorities in their own countries, the first casualties of the impending race or civil war will be multiculturalism and political correctness.
 
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It's funny how that white skin really emphasizes how grotesque negro noses are by white standards.
 
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The article says race can be determined from the teeth, but they don't tell how.

Whites with high cheekbones are not a sign of recent racial mixing. Asians with brown hair and both races with "funny" eyes - not oval, not round - are a sign of recent racial mixing.

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I can't believe people are still debating the existence of race in this day and age. Race denial is a brainwashing technique used to soften up whites for their impending cultural and demographic genocide. This fanatical rejection of human biological differences is normally expressed as a number of media soundbites that constantly bombard us on a daily basis. These include "there is no gene for race," "there's only one race, the human race," "race doesn't exist" and so on. This is the way it works: when a white neighborhood is flooded with niggers and muds, there's no objection to it because everybody has already been brainwashed into believing that race doesn't exist.

The reason why race denial can't be refuted is because it's an essentially religious position that isn't based on logic or empirical evidence, like the trinity or the resurrection of Jesus. Trying to convince race deniers of the error of their ways is like trying to deprogram evangelical Christians; it's virtually impossible, in addition to being a total waste of time and energy. The only way to counter multikulti brainwashing is to find people who haven't been indoctrinated in the state religion of multiculturalism and explain our position to them.
 
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There is a certain educated white type that welcomes mud grandchildren and wants to argue that race is nothing more or less than sun tans/shades of skin color.
 
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I can't believe people are still debating the existence of race in this day and age. Race denial is a brainwashing technique used to soften up whites for their impending cultural and demographic genocide. This fanatical rejection of human biological differences is normally expressed as a number of media soundbites that constantly bombard us on a daily basis. These include "there is no gene for race," "there's only one race, the human race," "race doesn't exist" and so on. This is the way it works: when a white neighborhood is flooded with niggers and muds, there's no objection to it because everybody has already been brainwashed into believing that race doesn't exist.

The reason why race denial can't be refuted is because it's an essentially religious position that isn't based on logic or empirical evidence, like the trinity or the resurrection of Jesus. Trying to convince race deniers of the error of their ways is like trying to deprogram evangelical Christians; it's virtually impossible, in addition to being a total waste of time and energy. The only way to counter multikulti brainwashing is to find people who haven't been indoctrinated in the state religion of multiculturalism and explain our position to them.
It can be refuted, but only on a small scale - with the minority of whites with the brains to think and character to reach independent conclusions. To do anything on a broader scale requires control over the institutions that constitute authority - media, schools, government. Most people are essentially female in their thinking in that whatever authority says is right for that reason. They can't make a distinction between real, legitimate authority and something wearing the suit. They aren't biologically capable of not going along with the powers that be. Jews know that, and that's why they immediately try to take over the media when they enter a new country. At jezebel, where they daily promote the kind of race denial you're talking about, they simply don't allow effective responses to be posted. Not many, anyway. But as what I posted shows, the minute they let even a few comments through, people start to question and crack. I doubt more than 1 in 10 can intellectually grasp that race can't be both a social construct and a biological reality, but that one can see the contradiction between official ideology and factual reality.

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