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« on: May 21, 2006, 07:08:53 PM »
Do you think there's more or less organs typically available for any particular race/ethnicity?  What about people of mixed races?  I've heard about bone marrow and possibly another sort of transplant being hard to get for people of mixed races.
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Sara, wife to Joe (he's the one on dialysis)

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