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We are all mosaics: genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
- bookofjoe 1y agohttps://archive.ph/9EEN1 https://archive.ph/9EEN1
- Jeff_Brown 1y agoThe study is based on 100 cells from one 74-year-old man. The follow-up study will involve 150 individuals. I hope there's a very wide age range among them. They describe much, maybe all, of the variation as error, but one could imagine some of the variation actually serving a useful purpose and therefore existing even in young people.
- d0ks 1y agoIsn't the effect largely an age + lifestyle effect? Mutations increase as one ages, and things like smoking increase mutations (as the Nature write-up mentions).
- _aavaa_ 1y agoReminds me of: https://nautil.us/half-male-half-female-total-animal-234910/ https://nautil.us/half-male-half-female-total-animal-234910/ Nature is real weird.