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RE: Better Functional Understanding From Studying Human Vs Neanderthal Enzymes
a rare genetic disease as the population is fewer than 1 in 2000 people
The adjective 'rare' in these cases always has me shaking my head. It seems pretty frequent to me. Plus, almost all diseases are either as 'rare' as that or less rare, and I'm pretty sure there's more than 2000 genetic diseases, which means we all suffer from something.
And that doesn't sound rare to me :(
Everyone gets colds, or the flu, and you get them multiple times. 9.4% of the population of the Us has diabetes. 4:1000 get diagnosed with cancer (every year!), by contrast these genetic diseases are at birth and in comparison to the aformentioned diseases are 'rare.'
Doesn't mean people don't suffer with them. It also doesn't mean we aren't working for cures. :)