https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_by_chromosome_count
Adders-Tongue has 1260 chromosomes and it's a freaking plant!
Scientists believe that about 80 percent of a person’s height is hereditarily determined, with environmental factors such as nutrition determining the rest... Researchers studied the genomes of 253,288 people from Europe, North America and Australia, all with European ancestry and found 424 gene regions with 697 gene variants that are linked to height. Many of the genes identified were not previously known to have an effect on skeletal growth.
Here, we report the first large-scale GWAS (genome-wide association study) of puberty timing in males, based on recalled age at voice breaking in men in the 23andMe study. By combination with data on recalled age at menarche in women, we show that the genetic architecture of puberty timing has a substantial shared component between males and females, which also overlaps the genetic basis of several health-related traits and diseases.
And as Berkeley and MIT fight it out over who gets the money, the fame, and the chicks and deployment is further delayed, Big Pharma will jump in and buy it and then shelve it as it would kill all demand for the treatments they love putting people on forever. Curing things is not good for business.
Scientific innovations could help our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade as most of the documentation comes from shipping records, limiting our knowledge and leaving the average African American with little to no information about their roots.
“You could be completely naive as to how any of it works. That’s what’s really different about this,” Voigt says. “You could be a student in high school and go onto the Web-based server and type out the program you want, and it spits back the DNA sequence.”
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