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Scientists also identified a further 104 independent genetic variants that are very likely to be associated with the disease, enhancing the knowledge of the genetic component that causes Cad.
More recently, Australia has found itself drawn into much smaller-scale operations with a big civilian component in the Solomon Islands, in Papua New Guinea and even in Nauru: all countries that became independent only in the late 1960s or 1970s, and have signally failed to prosper.