Re: Archaeology unearths gout in early Pacific people

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:43:45 -0800 (PST), Jack Linthicum
<jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
So where did they get the gout gene? Also I don't have access to JSTOR
and the other pay-per-view services and don't tend to order them
through inter library loan.

"Among Taiwanese aborigines, especially Atayal, Bunun and Paiwan
adults, the prevalence of gout is particularly high (i.e., 15.2% in
men and 4.8% in women versus 0.34% and 0.28%, respectively, in
nonaboriginal men and women). In comparison with Maori individuals in
New Zealand (among whom the prevalence of gout is 10.2% in men and
1.8% in women) and Caucasians in the West (among hom the prevalence of
gout is ~1% in both men and women), Taiwanese have nearly the highest
prevalence of gout in the world."

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106600952/PDFSTART

Trejaut et al. determined that the mtDNA sequences of Taiwanese
aborigines were consistent with the concept of being ancestral to
those of Polynesians but not exclusively. The mtDNAs they compared
were inherited by women, who have a lower prevalence of gout than men,
and the link with Polynesians was strongest in the Ami and Yami
samples.

I would look at the differences between Atayal, Paiwan & Bunun men and
women.

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cure? :-)

"CME/CE Increased Coffee Consumption May Reduce Risk for Gout in Men
A prospective study showed that long-term coffee consumption was
associated with a lower risk for incident gout in men older than 40
years.

Medscape Medical News, May 2007"

Gisele


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