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by Diggity 3093 days ago
1% of Caucasian population

(http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13)

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That's actually about 2x the population of the US with HIV. Relatively speaking, it's not that rare comparatively.
If bone marrow donations for all caucasians were mandatory I would agree.
You also need them to be an HLA match as well as being on the bone marrow transplant register.