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Welcome to my homepage
A long time hobby and interest of mine that grew from growing up across the street from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. I've tried to use that love of racing and a little computer knowledge to create this race summary program. The file that goes with it I usually add to my Yahoo site on Saturday morning. The viewer is also there if this doesn't work. This was just an attempt on my part to create a web interface for this program. I'm still not sure if it works for anyone but me since there might be other necessary files missing, that only I, the creator has. I'm still learning.
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My horse racing viewer. It requires the specific file for that race, called horseinfo to be located in a directory called horseweb. |
The following link is to my FlashMx presentation on basic genetics and a rare condition called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP). I try to cover how genetic info is passed in dominant and recessive conditions, a little overview of how a genetic defect works, specifically as it pertains to one type of HSP, a dominant form on Chromosome 2 known as the Spastin defect. The presentation then goes on to give an overview of HSP in general, though slightly skewed toward the dominant type since that's what I have. Even though the HSP part is skewed in that direction most does lap over into the recessive type as far as testing and symptoms go. It must be noted, HSP is not just one condition but estimated to be around 30 different genetic causes of spastic paraplegia that are hereditary with the likely cause being some type of dysfunction at the very end of the longest axon in the body that feeds nerve impulses to the legs.
Wait for the following presentation to load. It may take a minute despite it saying done at the bottom.
You need Flash 6 installed for the HSP presentation.
Install Flash6 player
Please help this rare community. There are probably less than 20,000 people in the US with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP)also known as Familial Spastic Paraparesis and in Europe quite often called Strumpell-Lorraine. Estimates vary widely on it's frequency so worldwide there are between 85,000 and 875,000 affected people with this rare progressive hereditary condition.
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Support HSP research at UM!!! |
When sending contrbutions to Michigan or Duke please indicate for Hereditary or Familial Spastic Paraparesis research on the check
Comments, question, suggestions, send an email to Mike.
