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Dear Fundies,
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Dear Fundies,
No. Your fucking god did not play in the dirt and make you. Even you are far more complicated than that!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/scienc...TE&ei=5043

Quote: Human DNA is “a lot more active than we expected, and there are a lot more things happening than we expected,” said Ewan Birney of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, a lead researcher on the project.

In one of the Nature papers, researchers link the gene switches to a range of human diseases — multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, celiac disease — and even to traits like height. In large studies over the past decade, scientists found that minor changes in human DNA sequences increase the risk that a person will get those diseases. But those changes were in the junk, now often referred to as the dark matter — they were not changes in genes — and their significance was not clear. The new analysis reveals that a great many of those changes alter gene switches and are highly significant.

“Most of the changes that affect disease don’t lie in the genes themselves; they lie in the switches,” said Michael Snyder, a Stanford University researcher for the project, called Encode, for Encyclopedia of DNA Elements.
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Dear Fundies, - by Minimalist - September 5, 2012 at 10:57 pm
RE: Dear Fundies, - by padraic - September 5, 2012 at 11:56 pm
RE: Dear Fundies, - by Cyberman - September 5, 2012 at 11:59 pm

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