http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/17/gaza.gender.id/
This is a really interesting article. The problem in GAZA is huge. And, now that I think of it, though we do not hear about it much, I am thinking that the problem is a big problem in Saudi Arabia too. Which explains, perhaps, why a Saudi man that I know seems really uninterested and not at all alarmed by my own status. Hmmmmm
Khadijah
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Interesting
I just read this and found it very interesting I wonder if it's somthing in the water and they need a school named the CENTER LOL HUGS TO ALL RICHIE2
Inbreeding.
One thing that lots of Middle Eastern Families do is marry their cousins. That's not legal in a lot of places. The Video laid it up to that. And, from my reading, it seems that it is easier to mess up the making of a male than a female. The natural state of a fetus is female, and it takes some action to make it Male. It seems that it is not that hard to mess it up.
Khadijah
Other places
Other places also have this problem, one of them is Puerto Rico. In some villages there, it is part of the culture that some girls are going to turn into boys at puberty. AIS also runs in locales, one of those being Italy. Since that is where the legend of Hermaphroditus started, perhaps it has been a problem there for thousands of years. Getting away from gender problems, hyperpilosity (extreme hairiness) runs in families in Mexico.
There are a number of genetic diseases that have this sort of distribution. The most famous is sickle cell anemia. When these sorts of distributions are thoroughly investigated, they sometimes turn out like SCA to be related to some sort of pathogen, viral, bacterial or parasitic, in the area. Huntington's chorea, that killed Woody Guthrie, runs in families in parts of Peru and Bolivia where a vicious version of typhoid lurks in the water. The idea is that people who are only carriers but do not have the genetic disease have some sort of protection or advantage against the pathogen.
There are several books about how disease has affected human genetics, migration and politics. It's postulated that green eyes may have originally risen because the gene for them gave an advantage against a parasite in Western Asia. Since any disadvantage of green eyes (slight photosensitivity) is very minute, the gene could easily spread and secondary effects like mate selection could take over. More than half of the Magyar people in Hungary have green eyes and the gene is common from India to Ireland, the US and Canada.
It's complicated.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
My eyes changed color
SCA is rampant in Saudi Arabia, a very serious problem. I have Hirsuitisim (Very Hairy), normally a female disease, and mine is in the female pattern. My baldness is female pattern baldness. Now it seems very clear that I am XXy or Xy (the y gene being damaged or incomplete). Since my talk with the genetic scientist, I read anything on genes that I can find, though I am not a scientist.
I may have mentioned this before but I found the most interesting site on Gregor Mendel, and it is fascinating to see how his work inspired others. http://npatraits.homestead.com/index.html is his base site and the following is the result of the test I took. http://npatraits.homestead.com/comptype.html
For years I believed that my childhood abuse shaped me but when I look at this site is is clear that I was simply bred to be a very mild, obedient woman.
Much peace
Khadijah