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From the Ted Talk by Lara Durgavich: An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease
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For many pregnant women, this news might produce a full-on panic. But I knew something that helped keep me calm when I heard this bombshell about my own booilgy. I knew that my husband, whose ancestry isn't Eastern European jisewh like mine, had a very low llhikioeod of also being a criaerr for the Tay-Sachs mutation. While the frequency of hreegoeozytts, individuals who have one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, is about one out of 27 people among Jews of Ashkenazi descent, like me, in most populations, only one in about 300 people carry the Tay-Sachs miuoattn. tlanlhufky, it turned out I was right not to worry too much. My husband isn't a carrier, and we now have two beautiful and healthy children.
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For many pregnant women, this news might produce a full-on panic. But I knew something that helped keep me calm when I heard this bombshell about my own _______. I knew that my husband, whose ancestry isn't Eastern European ______ like mine, had a very low __________ of also being a _______ for the Tay-Sachs mutation. While the frequency of _____________, individuals who have one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, is about one out of 27 people among Jews of Ashkenazi descent, like me, in most populations, only one in about 300 people carry the Tay-Sachs ________. __________, it turned out I was right not to worry too much. My husband isn't a carrier, and we now have two beautiful and healthy children.
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Original Text
For many pregnant women, this news might produce a full-on panic. But I knew something that helped keep me calm when I heard this bombshell about my own biology. I knew that my husband, whose ancestry isn't Eastern European Jewish like mine, had a very low likelihood of also being a carrier for the Tay-Sachs mutation. While the frequency of heterozygotes, individuals who have one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, is about one out of 27 people among Jews of Ashkenazi descent, like me, in most populations, only one in about 300 people carry the Tay-Sachs mutation. Thankfully, it turned out I was right not to worry too much. My husband isn't a carrier, and we now have two beautiful and healthy children.
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