Talk:Finnish heritage disease

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Nominated with the hook "... that a population bottleneck among Finns about 4000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today?" --Una Smith (talk) 20:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Refs wanted

 * --Una Smith (talk) 15:09, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

What does the first sentence mean?
"A Finnish heritage disease is a genetic disease or disorder that is part of the Finnish disease heritage." That's not really informative!89.27.52.228 (talk) 23:35, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
I've deleted the following two sentences from the article:


 * The population bottleneck is seen only in the Y chromosome. Genetic diversity in autosomal chromosomes and in mitochondrial DNA (maternally inherited) is as high among Finns as among other European ethnic groups.

The source given for those claims makes the following, somewhat different statement:


 * Reduced gene diversity has yet to be reasonably demonstrated in autosomal and mitochondrial DNA studies of the Finns (Kittles et al. 1996; Lahermo et al. 1996).

In other words, as of 1998 there was no conclusive evidence for reduced genetic diversity outside of the Y chromosome, but that certainly does not support the claim that Finns have the same levels of genetic diversity on autosomal chromosomes as other populations. In fact, that claim is incompatible with the existence of so many Finnish heritage diseases in the first place.

I had planned to replace those two sentences with this:


 * Chromosome-wide evidence for the population bottleneck has so far been demonstrated only in the Y chromosome, and not yet in autosomal chromosomes and in the maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA. However, most Finnish heritage diseases are caused by genes located on autosomal chromosomes, so the reduced genetic diversity does appear to involve the entire genome.

But then it occurred to me that the source is from 1998, before genome-wide sequence data were even available, so that source cannot be used to support any claims about what is currently known. Jbening (talk) 23:34, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Is it proper to include lactose intolerance as a disease?
Most human are lactose intolerant; it is the default state of virtually all mammalia. With this in mind, is it really correct to include it in the list of genetic "diseases"? I understand it is considered a diagnosable condition but the idea that it is a "disease" is insanely eurocentric. 131.191.93.119 (talk) 23:48, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Thrombin Deficiency
Native to Finns? 50.96.226.192 (talk) 19:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)