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Evidence for a heritable predisposition for death due to influenza

Re: Evidence for a heritable predisposition for death due to influenza

Farmer said:
New paper in Journal of Infectious Diseases that reports a greater risk of death attributed to influenza given genetic (and familial) relatedness.

Free access .pdf

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/524064
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So, what would the read be on the following data? My grandfather died in Dec, 1918 in the second wave. He died at home, and his three sons all entered the room and stood in the door way (wearing gauze masks) when he died. None of them got the flu. (Probably just coincidence ;)
 
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