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[Ray Saintonge]

jayjg wrote:

>On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>Yonatan Horan wrote:
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews#Specific_diseases
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>>>I suggest you look at that. In addition to that, I remember seeing some
>>>research papers published on Ashkenazi Jews and will look for them if you
>>>really see the need. Just to support the above point, my cousin who is an
>>>Ashkenazi Jew has Familial Dysautonomy and my other cousin who is also an
>>>Ashkenazi Jew has Crohn's Disease.
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>>>On 2/9/07, Mets501 wrote:
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>>>>>Jewish is not only a religion but also a race. Someone can be an atheist and
>>>>>still Jewish. For example, I personally don't really believe in god but I'm
>>>>>still a Jew.
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>>>>Judaism is not a race.  There is nothing biologically which separates a
>>>>Jew(ish person) from a non-Jew(ish person).
>>>>It is OK to call it a culture, but not a race.
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>>I respectfully hold that treating Jews as a race is fraught with
>>problems.  The epidemiological evidence cited may very well suggest
>>racial characteristics among the Ashkenazim, but that says nothing
>>about the Sephardim.  To what extent do they share the same congenital
>>diseases?  I would even suggest that Ashkenazim and Sephardim are
>>racially more different than Catholics and Protestants.
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>You'd be wrong, though.
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>http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/12/6769
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Thanks.  Rather than venturing forth with foolish responses, I will need 
to study the article in greater detail before pursuing this line of 
thought, and its implications.

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