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If you accept that damage to the future genetic health of your descendants due to an action you take is unacceptable do you agree that failing to remedy an obvi
by idiotsecant 4y ago
If you accept that damage to the future genetic health of your descendants due to an action you take is unacceptable do you agree that failing to remedy an obvious genetic flaw in yourself is equally unacceptable? Why or why not?
- giantg2 4y agoThis is a discussion about uneducated self-treatement. In such a case, I think it should be non-germ line. Correcting germ line issues could still be preformed by some trained person to avoid potentially making things worse.
- adolph 4y agoThe term often used for non-germ line is Somatic. Human mutations arise in two major settings: the germline and soma. Germline mutations occur in sperm, eggs, and their progenitor cells and are therefore heritable. Somatic mutations occur in other cell types and cannot be inherited by offspring. Somatic and germline mutations matter in health and disease. https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3508-8 https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...