From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent genetic testing company, says on its Web site, “The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself.”
But scientists are discovering that — to a surprising degree — we contain genetic multitudes. Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. But scientists are finding that it’s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people.
“There have been whispers in the matrix about this for years, even decades, but only in a very hypothetical sense,” said Alexander Urban, a geneticist at Stanford University. Even three years ago, suggesting that there was widespread genetic variation in a single body would have been met with skepticism, he said. “You would have just run against the wall.”
Well, who knows, you might be your own grandpa.
Humans have 50% of the same material as bananas.
And what does that have to do with the price of eggs in China?
That should be 50% of the same genetic material.
Nerds of the world, unite!
Yeah. But is it caused by humans,and how can we scam the idiots?
How can they convict based on DNA evidence?
I am always suspicious of invisible evidence in a lab coat.. Its never really about you.. Its about the system in place.. Before, during and after your visit to our injustice system.. Shut up, shut down, exonerated based on grant seeking scientists and their invisible friends..
Who will not rock the boat, pull the plug on their own credentials.. Problems with the system get treated like people in the system.. Up the river, down the river, anywhere but here..
The science is fluid and so are the results it seems..
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
You got that right. I don’t think science has even touched the complexity of a single cell let alone the human Genome. If this Universe says anything by observation. Nothing is simple at base.
God is Infinitely complex. So to His creation.
Some have genomes that came from other people.
How does that happen?
LAS…. good question. I wonder what the answer will be?
Good question LAS. Let’s read the article and see if they offer any clues! (said in my best children’s tv voice)
This is fascinating I remember my 1st year prof telling us all how our differences from person to person were probably due to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. He may have been as wrong as could be.
Used to work for a gas transportation company.
Took a course on gas metering.
There are so many variables it is quite mind boggling.
Asked the prof: is this the best educated guess, after some insistence on an answer, the wise guy sez yes.
The possible way to look at this is, most of the things that the scientist say is “best educated guess” and that is not much to go on.
They set the parameters, they decide the outcome, it is really as simple as that.
As long as you manage to get a “consensus”, you, by jove, got it.
On the other hand if C.S.I. sez so, it must be so.
You have to agree with the “artists”, failing that, you are against just about the whole science of things.
Your agent has no claim to anything what so ever, he is non academic after all. Though his son is a relative of the first president of the Stanford University.
Heh, what a screed. Much to learn.
Its the pesky Serpent people Las.Fiddling with the human genome to mutate mankind. Aliens from Sirius.
If any one knows this, it should be you
https://www.google.ca/search?q=serpent+people&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IpE_UuvPOcWBrQG9uIGQAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDUQsAQ&biw=1267&bih=744&dpr=1
For the CSI fans out there, don’t you remember they did an episode on mosaicism? The thing is, you aren’t going to be mistakenly convicted because of a genetic anomaly, you’re going to be acquitted. This article is interesting but at the core it doesn’t shake the foundation of genetics or genetic analysis. The fact that a mother could have cells from a child propagate inside her isn’t terribly shocking and the number of cells we’re talking about doesn’t sound particularly large.