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> We have lots of examples of this in other heritable disease types You're saying that diseases persist in humans because they're selected for, because they're
by alecbz 3y ago
> We have lots of examples of this in other heritable disease types
You're saying that diseases persist in humans because they're selected for, because they're beneficial to others? That's interesting, do you have some examples?
- TremendousJudge 3y agosickle cell anemia is the classic example; one copy of the gene gives you malaria resistance, two copies gives you the disease
- DoreenMichele 3y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352304215000239 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235230421...
- IIAOPSW 3y agoI would phrase it as the genes are selected for, not that the diseases are selected for, but yeah you understand correctly. Others have already filled in examples like you asked for.