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This sounds interesting, do you have any references for further reading?
by sxv 5y ago
This sounds interesting, do you have any references for further reading?
- londons_explore 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation Treatments that reduce mutations in general could make the immune system less effective (increasing your chances of dying of disease, and that of passing a disease on to others). It could also cause fewer mutations in your offspring, which might hurt human evolution over many hundreds of generations. Curing cancer tomorrow, but with side effects of dramatically increasing transmission and deaths by transmissible disease, and causing humans to die out from failure to adapt to future environments seems like overall a bad plan. It's certainly something we'll need to fully understand before making use of.
- robwwilliams 5y agoNot right. Get some hard core background in population genetics. If you want a great (but costly) text on this topic with real insight—, then read Lynch’s The Origins of Genome Architecture.
- cinntaile 5y agoWhat's so good about it and how dated is it? The book is 13 years old, a lot is happening in that field no?
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