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Article: 'One man's poison': genetic vulnerability. (vulnerability to environmentally associated diseases)
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- Science News
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- June 7, 1986
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"One man's poison': Genetic vulnerability
About a decade ago, in a Dupont plant in Deepwater, N.J., exposure to a chemical used in manufacturing caused 87 episodes of a potentially serious blood disorder in workers. But it wasn't a simple case of exposure equaling problems. Though many more workers were exposed, just 30 developed the disorder, and 30 of the episodes occurred in 8 workers. Now scientists are gathering tools to crack open the "black box' of why some people are predisposed to environmentally associated diseases. Some of those tools were described last week in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of ...