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> That variant of the COMT gene have a mountain of evidence against it and no evidence showing any benefit whatsoever When you look at a single gene, you can s
by FollowingTheDao 1y ago
> That variant of the COMT gene have a mountain of evidence against it and no evidence showing any benefit whatsoever
When you look at a single gene, you can see there’s no benefit. But when you look at the gene in contacts of the whole genome, there could certainly be a benefit to having a slower COMT enzyme.
For example, in someone with higher homocysteine, this would be an advantage.
So you see the problem, you see the gene is bad because of looking at the gene as an individual, but I see it as probably beneficial when I look at the whole genome. And this is why I am against gene editing. Unless you take the gene, you wanna edit in the full context of the whole genome you don’t see the bad effects it might have in the long run. And who is doing that? nobody.