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Re:First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic ... by concordDance on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:42PM (#34842645)
> 85%ish of whites get matched, that number gets depressingly low for minorites.

Hmm...

How does this translate to other places? E.g. can you only match Han in China?

Do Italians and Scots match? Turks and Egyptians?

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Re:First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic ... by mlyle on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:37PM (#34842958)
A big part of the problem is that minorities are not reached/enrolled onto the registry at a high rate.

What matters isn't really the proportion of the subpopulations that are registered, but the absolute numbers.

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