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At what point can we select offspring, or engineer them, with specific hair and eye colour?
by ArkanExplorer 6y ago
At what point can we select offspring, or engineer them, with specific hair and eye colour?
- m463 6y agoCome on that's the old way of thinking. How can we express different eye colors, for our date, tonight? ;)
- haihaibye 6y agoDid they provide a list of variants in the paper? If so, selection among embryos for the trait could be done now via IVF and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Most companies wouldn't offer the service due to unwanted PR but any competent bioinformatician could do it given the data, I'm sure some would do it for bitcoin. Modifying humans is prohibited and dangerous with current technology due to off target effects.
- gwern 6y agoYou already could. The predictive power of the existing PGSes isn't too bad as it is; this improves it, but you could already steer the eye/hair color with considerable accuracy. The real problem is finding a service like GenPred which will do the embryo biopsies and can get out a usable genotype you can run said scores on.
- oh_sigh 6y agoLet's hope never. I'm a fairly average looking person with shocking blue eyes that lets me swing above my weight.