Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Copy Number Variables in Diseases
On average of an rage, you or i would have about forty five million nuclear tides of d and a in our genomes. That's copy number variable with respect to the standard human reference sequence. And when you take all these these diseased genes that are being identified, the ones that are associated with disease tend to map into regions that are copy number stable - which is how evolution works.
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