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About 10 per cent of the population carry a recessive gene for a lethal form of dwarfism.
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According to research was carried out by ORB International, 85 per cent of the population will visit a church over the course of a year.
Mutations affecting adult haemoglobin production are among the most common of all genetic variations, with about 5 per cent of the world's population carrying a defective gene.
About 1 in 25 people in white populations carry one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, and 70 per cent of all CF carriers in the northern European group carry the same single mutation in the gene.
Professor Sherwin, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the advantageous mutation then spread rapidly through the population, with the proportion of birds carrying Haplotype H increasing from 17 per cent to 47 per cent during the five years of the study.
Between 10 and 30 per cent of dialysis patients in France carry the hepatitis C virus compared to 1 per cent of the general population.
Public affairs advisor for the British Red Cross said: «Only 7 per cent of the UK population has the skills and confidence to carry - out basic first aid in an emergency.
The School District of Philadelphia partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to carry out the study, involving more than 51 000 students in Grades 1 to 12 attending 217 schools — roughly 40 per cent of the total student population in the school district.