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Marrow donors elusive for multiracial patients
Nick Glasgow, left, who has leukemia, is comforted by his mother, Carole Wiegand, at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, Calif. His ethnic background make it almost impossible to find a bone marrow match, which usually comes from a patient’s own ethnic group.
If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure...