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TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks

This Week in Evolution

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Is There a Difference Between Coding Variants and Non-Coding Variants?

There's a massive advantage to looking at non-coding variation rather than the actual Sequences that encode for the amino acids of proteins. And so you know when we're thinking about Host pathogen interactions host virus interactions oftentimes we see these these protein coding changes the receptor for a virus, right? Here we're spoiled by those right? We are and it kind of like exactly it kind of speaks to the simplicity of the phenotype or scoring Which is you know, how sick are you That might be an easier path for evolution to tinker with along the way.

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