A population of Jewish people known as the Ashkenazi Jews have
an unusually high risk of several genetic diseases, and up until
now, no one has understood why. Was it random chance that made
mutations so common or did evolution play a role in keeping
mutations around? The answer to this question, said researchers
at Stanford University Medical Center, appears to be chance.
Their findings appear in the March online issue of the American
Journal of Human Genetics and in the journal’s April print
edition. From the Stanford University: Stanford research points
to chance as cause of genetic diseases in Ashkenazi Jews
STANFORD, Calif. – A population of Jewish people known as the
Ashkenazi Jews have an unusually high risk of several genetic
diseases, and up until now, no one has understood why. Was it
random chance that made mutations so common or did evolution
play a role in keeping mutations around? The answer to this
question, said researchers at Stanford University Medical
Center, appears to be chance. Their fin