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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was recently at a specialist, and he asked me my ancestry. I thought it might be pertinent to my condition, so I said my sister did a 23 and Me test and it came in overwhelming Irish. He said, "Right, so Caucasian." which he typed into the form. Ancestry seems to be the new word for race or ethnicity. That said, DH is Arab and that ethnicity is very pertinent to a medical condition one of my kids has. It was overlooked as a possibility because the doctor had no reason to suspect Arab background based on appearance until I later pointed it out.[/quote] True. Diseases like G6PD deficiency and beta thalassemia are more common in people of middle eastern or Mediterranean heritage. Or Tay Sachs in people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Or Sickle cell in black people. ETC…[/quote]
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