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Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 10:07:46 PM Subject: ress From: To: [email protected] Jeffrey have used your 20 to leverage 12 and the University owes me 5 in two months, so the money is all set spent Friday with Dan Lieberman at Harvard and his cohorts, all of whom are experts on human locomotion and, in particular possible spinal adaptations his best man on lumbar curvature was thereiehthey doubt that lumbar curvature is helpful in short sprints but we all agree that is is time to find out, and we have the right sample measurement is another matter, cat scans too costly, X-rays to invasive so it is more (female) hands on measurements of spinal curvature IC'/,- as i have always said, the key is the final genetic stage we have now surveyed the sports literature which is extensive but with typically small sample sizes (8-12)'141/2their chief value is to isolate possible variables of interest, to which genetic variants can be attached we want a —40 loci chip to look at athletes and controls It% more late and warmest best wishes, as always EFTA_R1_00039606 EFTA01746180