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Cheap Air Max 90 Online , Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least three thousand Finns are expected to get a letter this year warning them of a disease they may have inherited from a 17th century forefather.
The staff at the parish registry in Viitasaari, a municipality in central Finland, are currently engaged in a labour intensive task of identifying the descendants of a man who lived 400 years ago.
Finnish national broadcaster Yle said on Monday the researchers at the Hospital of Helsinki University have found out that the man was the source of a hereditary gene mutation that could cause sudden deaths at young age.
When reached, those alive will be contacted and treated, if necessary
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To find their current addresses is not a problem. Finland boasts a church based population registry dating partially back to 1650s, with births, marriages and deaths recorded.
Although the task is not insurmountable, it will take the parish employees at least half a year, said Yle.
The current national population registry system only dates back to early 1970s and before that the churches kept the registries.
The inherited disease is known as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT).
In 1990s
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Clinically, the problem is that proteins releasing calcium ions in the heart cells function abnormally and will affect heart rhythms.
Among the people who have this mutated gene, sudden deaths have occurred over generations.
Cardiologist Heikki Swan told Yle news service that typically a pupil may die suddenly during gymnastics hour. And in one case, a child died when rehearsing a play, being nervous on the stage.
The hospital has been able to ascertain three clusters of relatives with the gene and they are all descendants of the man who lived in the village in central Finland in 1600s.
Not all carriers of the gene get symptoms
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When found, the descendants will be screened with a blood test and those carrying the gene can be given prophylactic medication.
Currently only 150 carriers are recognized but the number is expected to multiply, according to the Yle report.
by Yvonne Kennedy
DUBLIN, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Micheal Martin, leader of Fianna Fail (Republican Party)
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Martin was born in the bustling Cork City suburb of Turners Cross in County Cork, on the southern tip of Ireland.
Like the incumbent prime minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny, Martin is the third child in a family of five. His father who represented Ireland in international boxing and was a bus driver in Cork, was an activist and unionist and is sometimes credited as having ignited an interest in politics in three of his sons
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With a Masters degree in Political History from University College Cork, Martin had taught at secondary school for a year before running for office in a local election at the tender age of 25. His first attempt to run for office at the national level in 1987 as a Fianna Fail candidate for TD was unsuccessful. However, he was elected on his second attempt in 1989, and has been reelected in every subsequent election.
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