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... "There have been some reports in the scientific literature on Caucasiansbut only a small study on African-Americans, and they didn't find the mutation,"said Dr. Elizabeth M. Rohlfs, clinical assistant professor of pathology andlaboratory medicine at UNC-CH School of Medicine. Rohlfs and her colleague...China now leads world in sulfur emissions, study shows
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