The architecture of our genomes is anything but basic
Shared Differences
The architecture of our genomes is anything but basic
By Tina Hesman Saey April 25th, 2009; Vol.175 #9 (p. 16) Text Size Enlarge
SHARED DIFFERENCESView Larger Version | Glowing strands of DNA from five people highlight differences among humans in the number of copies of amylase genes, which encode enzymes that break down sugars. Red and green probes bind to regions hosting the genes, and each DNA strand has a different number of the genes on the short arm of chromosome 1. From the American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2008Whether you like it or not, you’re a little different. If it makes you feel any better, so is everybody else. In fact, everybody is far more different than anybody had imagined.
The architecture of our genomes is anything but basic
By Tina Hesman Saey April 25th, 2009; Vol.175 #9 (p. 16) Text Size Enlarge
SHARED DIFFERENCESView Larger Version | Glowing strands of DNA from five people highlight differences among humans in the number of copies of amylase genes, which encode enzymes that break down sugars. Red and green probes bind to regions hosting the genes, and each DNA strand has a different number of the genes on the short arm of chromosome 1. From the American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2008Whether you like it or not, you’re a little different. If it makes you feel any better, so is everybody else. In fact, everybody is far more different than anybody had imagined.
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