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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Friend: The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"

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If you're going to do a sudty like that, you can imagine you'd like to look at lots and lots of people. We'd have to go and have a pretty wide study, and we realized that actually one way to think of this is, let us look at adults who are over 40 yares of age, and let's make sure that we look at those who were healthy as kids. They might have had individuals in their families who had had a childhood disease, but not necessarily. And let's go and then screen those to find those who are carrying genes for ciohlodhd diseases.

Now, some of you, I can see you putting your hnads up going, "Uh, a little odd. What's your evidence that this could be faeslbie?" I want to give you two examples.

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If you're going to do a _____ like that, you can imagine you'd like to look at lots and lots of people. We'd have to go and have a pretty wide study, and we realized that actually one way to think of this is, let us look at adults who are over 40 _____ of age, and let's make sure that we look at those who were healthy as kids. They might have had individuals in their families who had had a childhood disease, but not necessarily. And let's go and then screen those to find those who are carrying genes for _________ diseases.

Now, some of you, I can see you putting your _____ up going, "Uh, a little odd. What's your evidence that this could be ________?" I want to give you two examples.

Solution


  1. feasible
  2. years
  3. study
  4. childhood
  5. hands

Original Text


If you're going to do a study like that, you can imagine you'd like to look at lots and lots of people. We'd have to go and have a pretty wide study, and we realized that actually one way to think of this is, let us look at adults who are over 40 years of age, and let's make sure that we look at those who were healthy as kids. They might have had individuals in their families who had had a childhood disease, but not necessarily. And let's go and then screen those to find those who are carrying genes for childhood diseases.

Now, some of you, I can see you putting your hands up going, "Uh, a little odd. What's your evidence that this could be feasible?" I want to give you two examples.

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