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Originally Posted by listopencil
"Researchers tell CNN only 1% of Caucasians -- mostly Northern Europeans -- and no African-Americans or Asians have this particular mutation."
I wonder if you can get tested, to see if you have the mutation. I'd donate my bone marrow if it could help somebody beat AIDS.
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Yes, you can, but it would almost never happen. You'd need someone with leukemia or another advanced cancer who would need a BMT. As is, the risk/reward would make a BMT for the purposes of giving them the mutation a poor choice, especially given advancements in antiretrovirals.
With a BMT you run the risk of dying from all sorts of complications, including graft-versus-host.
Fun fact: the mutation exists because those with it were much less likely to succumb to the Black Death. Evolution at work.
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