JimBowie1958
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According to the study published in Comprehensive Psychiatry, 34.6% of whites and 53.4% of blacks have 2-repeat allele or less. However, only .5% of whites have the 2-repeat allele version compared to 4.7% of blacks.
That means blacks are 9.4 times more likely to have the extremely dysfunctional version of the gene than whites.
The CCC article is erroneous. It should read that 34.6% of whites had the 3-repeat allele or less, not the 2-allele or less. And the same for the 53.4% of blacks.
I think that a 4.7% increase in the likelihood of the 2-repeat allele is a big stretch, seeming to marginalize the other 95%+ of blacks whoa re 3-repeat alleles or better.