On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Mary wrote:

> Did HGs have diabetes? I wrote on a discussion list that they did not and
> now someone is challenging me.
>
> But from reading CANCER DISEASE OF CIVILIZATION it seems to me there was no
> auto immune disease in HG communities.

More to the point, does this person cite any evidence that HGs
*did* (or do) have diabetes?  And is it proven that diabetes is
an autoimmune disease?  The last thing I remember reading about
this is that juvenile onset diabetes mellitus is associated with
a mutation on chromosome 18, but I have no idea whether there is
an autoimmune aspect to it.

Todd Moody
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