t/e ratios and economist article
OllyBianchi
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Those of you with an interest in the science of doping will be interested by an article in this week's Economist. I'll summarise it quickly but it is worth reading - basically some scientists have found that the famed T/E ratio in testesterone tests is controlled by a gene.
We should have one copy of this gene but some of us have none and some have two. If you have no copies of it you'll get a false positive and if you have two copies you won't fail a t/e ratio test.
They reckon about 9% of an average white male sample population have no copies of this gene and the figure is higher for asia.
Article signed off by suggesting that athletes on their way to the olympics should pack a copy of their DNA profile.
We should have one copy of this gene but some of us have none and some have two. If you have no copies of it you'll get a false positive and if you have two copies you won't fail a t/e ratio test.
They reckon about 9% of an average white male sample population have no copies of this gene and the figure is higher for asia.
Article signed off by suggesting that athletes on their way to the olympics should pack a copy of their DNA profile.
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Already a thread on this somewhere else.Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0
