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Your approach might reduce the rates of these genetic illnesses, but it would not eradicate them, as most commmon genetic illnesses have a non-negligible rate o
by ejstronge 8y ago
Your approach might reduce the rates of these genetic illnesses, but it would not eradicate them, as most commmon genetic illnesses have a non-negligible rate of spontaneous occurrence.
- st26 8y agoDo we know if latent precursors combine, or is it really spontaneous/random?
- ejstronge 8y agoGreat question! I would wager that both occur. Each disease will have slightly different genetics, but Huntington's disease provides a good example. There, we know that some individuals have a predisposition to developing the disease - this bias results from having over a certain threshold of repeating DNA bases in the Huntingtin gene. Here's an accessible discussion of Huntington's and similar diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ .