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Hilary Blue wrote:

> sid,
> my genetics professor back in the 60s and 70s was desperately trying to
>

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> hilary
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> Sid Levin wrote:
> >
> > Why can't they simply check the rate of PD in the countries the ethnic grous
> > came from? I'm sure the Orient and Africa and Samoa etc etc all have
> > Parkinson people in some percent that's would be more indicitive of the
> > ethnic impact on PD
> > Sid Levin

by using ethnic groups living in close proximity to each other
it may be possible to eliminate environmental variables
that would be extreme from country to country

there are other problems with this, but, it is worth a try

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