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A non-medical person's question: Can someone please explain how a genetic mutation "might" work in this case? What could be the possible sequence of informatio
by brainless 8y ago
A non-medical person's question:
Can someone please explain how a genetic mutation "might" work in this case? What could be the possible sequence of information or instruction that a paralysis strikes and then goes away?
I am really puzzled that paralysis can go away like this. Perhaps it leads to clues for usual paralysis situations. Sorry, totally not into this science.
- varlock 8y agoNot a geneticist either, but this is something the book "The Gene" by Mukherjee can explain. Quoting from the book (chapter "Regulation, Replication, Recombination"): "A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein" ... "Proteins act as regulatory sensors, or master switches, in this process — turning on and turning off genes, or even combinations of genes, in a coordinated manner." So you have a feedback loop, whereby a gene encodes a message to build a protein that regulates a gene. To get back to your original question, a mutation might encode a different protein which might react to some environmental changes to produce a change in behavior.
- zaarn 8y agoNot medical or genetic expert but I would guess that, considering it seemed to be triggered by happiness, it's a sort of overload on some system in the brain. The child goes happy -> something overloads -> something shuts down -> recovery to normal