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pathways which influence neurological
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that single variations of a disease gene
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cause a crippling disease. And like a
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For hundreds of years, the smartest,
most literate male Jews — the rab-
bis and moneylenders — mated with
the wealthiest and wisest daughters,
ensuring the spread of "smart genes;'
due to arranged marriages. Parsing the
Talmud paid off. In other words, the
scientists suggest, potentially harmful
mutations may persist in the Jewish
gene pool because their possibility of
causing cancer is trumped by their
greater likelihood of promoting high
intelligence.
I discussed this thesis with dozens
of geneticists. Not one dismissed it
outright, but only a handful would go
on the record. Suggesting that behav-
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Jon Entine, an adjunct fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy Research, is the author of
"Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the
DNA of the Chosen People"
(www.abrahamschildren.net). His e-mail
address is: runjonrun@earthlink.net.
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ioral characteristics are genetic and
distributed unevenly across popula-
tions can put careers in jeopardy.
Finding links between Judaism and
DNA, even flattering hints of geneti-
cally shaped high IQ, is particularly
unnerving considering the lessons of
Jewish history.
Yet, we can't escape the fact that
Judaism is different from Christianity
or Islam. It's not purely faith-based. It
originated as a tribal religion, tied to
nationhood. It remains a rich tapestry
with threads of faith, land and blood
ancestry — a genetic as well as a cul-
tural inheritance.
We don't fully understand how dif-
ferences in disease proclivities, behav-
iors and the brain have evolved. The
great paradox of biodiversity research
is that the only way to understand how
similar humans are is to learn how we
differ. ❑
esearchers at the University
of Haifa have discovered a
substance that may become
an oral treatment for diabetes and its
complications. The substance, which
is derived from yeast, is called glucose
tolerance factor (GTF).
"The research is now at the stage
where the substance has been success-
fully tested on diabetic rats and was
found to reduce sugar and lipids in
the blood of the treated animals. The
next stage of the research is to evalu-
ate GTF efficacy in humans:' said Dr.
Nitsa Mirsky, who is conducting the
research.
Diabetes affects 5-10 percent of the
population in developed countries,
while in developing countries the
disease has been recently declared an
epidemic. Diabetics suffer from lack
of insulin or a deficiency in the body's
ability to respond to insulin.
Diabetes has no cure and can lead to
kidney failure, heart problems, strokes
or blindness and other complications.
Approximately 50 percent of diabetics
are treated with insulin, which has to
be injected, while the rest are treated
with oral medications, which tend to
be more difficult to regulate and often
have side effects.
According to Dr. Mirsky, there are
a number of problems with insulin
treatment; the main one being insulin
is not always effective, due to gradual
development of resistance to the hor-
mone.
An additional problem is that
insulin doses are not necessarily syn-
chronized with the patient's physical
activities or eating intervals. A large
dose of insulin injected before a dia-
betic patient eats, for example, can
cause a sudden drop in blood sugar
(hypoglycemia) that can result in a
coma or death.
In addition, the fact that insulin
must be injected can be difficult for
many patients. ❑