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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ©
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

MEDICINE

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Professor Joshua Lederberg

JUL 6 1970

Dear Hy--

Just after I wrate Dr. Scott, I saw the
NYT clip, and it occurred to me that DMC might
be very well set up now for the study of the effects
of the Hb gene on intellectual performance,
The clinic will have ascertained segregating
families, and you will be able to contrast all o
Senotypes (a/a a/s and s/s) in the same family.

Actually, the important study would use col-
laterals, where the parents are a/a and a/s
respectively, and the comparison of these among
the progeny would be untinged by the actual occur
rence of s/s disease. But that variable also is
interesting (the economic and social drain...)

(However, on rigorous consideration, I have to
remark that a/s x a/s matings may npt be exactly
comparable to a/a x a/s.)

Can you take this on?

Yours,

ports.

eyo