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05/28/2009: "Mixed-race patients struggle to find marrow donors"
The doctor "didn't say it was slim-to-none. He didn't say it would be hard. He said 'zero chance,'" Glasgow's mother, Carole Wiegand, recalled with tears in her eyes. "When Nick heard that, it sent him plummeting."
At a time when the number of multiracial Americans is rising, only a tiny fraction of donors on the national bone-marrow registry are of mixed race. The National Marrow Donor Program is trying to change that by seeking more diverse donors for patients suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases.
"The truth is, when people of different backgrounds marry and produce offspring, it creates more types that are harder to match," said Michelle Setterholm, the program's director of scientific services. "The probability just gets lower when you have people of mixed ancestral DNA."
[ Race-mixing ruins the beautiful result of Nature's painstaking effort through many thousands of years of evolution, leaving a result that it would again take millenia of evolution to fix. ]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_he_me/mixed_race_donors