Our study indicates that one explanatory factor was whether a country undertook mass privatisation.

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It may be that genetic mutations can accumulate without actually leading to a disorder, until, perhaps, they are triggered by an environmental factor or pile up enough to reach a critical mass.

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Differences in gender, body mass index or whether a person was living alone did not affect the risk factor, they said.

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He's not interested in conforming to a mainstream standard and was hell-bent on avoiding what he called "the karaoke culture" of "American Idol, " "The X Factor" and other programs in which singing is a competition for the mass taste.

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