Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data

Re:Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data by seanmcdirmid on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:28PM (#17491420)

I don’t get what you are trying to claim here. There are well known differences between races (e.g. lactose tolerance) that are minor but medically relevant.

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Re:Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data by padobson on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#17491461)

I think OP is trying to say something like, "The variance between groups is less than the variance among them"

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Re:Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data by klenwell on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:55PM (#17491625)

And that the racial categories used politically and socially don't always map cleanly to genetic categories used by scientists (thus "75 percent of Pacific Islanders" rather than 100%).

But in some (carefully defined) cases they get close.

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