Breakthrough In Human Genetics 240
Many readers have submitted this story about a breakthrough in our understanding of human DNA: in particular, how much variation can exist between peoples' genes and how genes are involved with certain diseases. "One person's DNA code can be as much as 10 percent different from another's, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that questions the idea that everyone on Earth is 99.9 percent identical genetically.
They said their new version of the human genetic map, or 'book of life,' fills in many missing pages and chapters to explain how genes are involved in common diseases.
The Human Genome Project mapped the billions of letters that make up the human genetic code. Scientists later refined the map by looking for single variations called SNPs or single nucleotide polymorphisms.
The CNV map gives researchers a different way to look for genes linked to diseases by identifying gains, losses, and alterations in the genome."
Spelling on Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
No wonder so many of you can't spell.
Misunderstanding (Score:5, Funny)
Honestly folks, get it together already.
Without stem cells?? (Score:1, Funny)
shocker.
At Last (Score:4, Funny)
oblig Steven Wright (Score:3, Funny)
except this one guy
Re:Spelling on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Misunderstanding (Score:1, Funny)
more examples of fuzzy math (Score:5, Funny)
monkeys and humans 98% the same, and this new genetic analysis indicates human up to 10% different, or, only 90% the same
therefore, 98%-90% = 8% difference in monkey versus human random shakespeare manuscript creation
8% of 1 million is 8,000
therefore, 8,000 more monkeys than humans are required to produce one shakespeare manuscript
it's a scientific fact folks
(as well as all other "facts" gleaned from this 10% number in the article)
Re:God vs Man (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spelling on Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:God vs Man (Score:5, Funny)
100% of the atoms making us up are DIFFERENT. No two person has the exact SAME atoms!!
Oh please say it ain't true! Say it ain't true! Now I will have to meditate for half an hour in my religious beliefs just to be able to breath again!
Re:chimpanzees=98% human (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Actually (Score:1, Funny)
Please, lets try and keep the lunatic fringe off slashdot.
On The Origin of Slashies... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good Science meet REALLY bad math (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genom
The X chromosome comprises ~5% of the genome while the Y chromosome is ~1%. Since women are XX and men are XY, men and women differ by ~6%.
If chimps are only 2% different from men, then men are more closely related to chimps than women. QED
The secret... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oblig Steven Wright (Score:1, Funny)
Re:chimpanzees=98% human (Score:4, Funny)
Elected?
Re:Spelling on Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oblig Steven Wright WTF? (Score:1, Funny)
moderator dislikes poster?
Real world example (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On The Origin of Slashies... (Score:4, Funny)
My ancestors visited Digg? No, say it ain't so!!! It can't be, anyway, there are no itermediary fossils!
Re:Actually (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The secret... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Actually (Score:2, Funny)
I would argue that for many people 70% of the brain is air.
Re:God vs Man (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not religious, but let me try: Adam was created by God using mud from a river bank. The materials available in common earth are not different from the ones found in a human body.
All the matter in the Universe was concentrated in one single place and time, then it exploded and eventually became all the stars, planets and creatures we know today. God is everywhere and we all are part of God.
Simple creatures evolve to become complex creatures. If we have a really close look, the basic components and the instructions (DNA) are similar across species. The best mutations survive, the others fail and do not carry on in the gene pool. God is perfect, Nature is perfect.
Re:Natural Selection no longer applies to humans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Natural Selection no longer applies to humans (Score:4, Funny)
Well, anecdotally, I have observed that a lot of stupid and ugly people are having children. I don't meant his flippantly, I mean it literally.
I think the grand-parent has a very good point -- the people who are producing children are not being selected based on attractiveness, or ability to earn an income, or any form of "breeding of the fittest", they are being selected on their willingness to put out. I know in my high school, the biggest idiots were the ones having children. Repeatedly usually. Sometimes, they were helping to perpetuate a cycle of poverty of kids being born to poor, uneducated people, and having very few opportunities in life.
Modern society insulates people from any of the good parts of natural selection. Between welfare footing the bill for the kid, or irresponsible people who go around serially knocking up everyone they come across (no pun intended
I would argue that your point of "sexually preferred" people is more like "sexually available" -- they're not the most attractive or desireable people, they are whoever is handy. There's just way too many people peeing in the gene pool.
Cheers