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Why are males more likely than females to have autism spectrum disorder?
The male to female ratio in autism spectrum disorder is around 4:1. However it seems ASD is not a simple X-linked disorder.
Then how is it possible males are more susceptible than females, if the ...
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: To compute probability of finding two siblings (random mating)
I've been working a little with M. G. Bulmer's Principles of Statistics (Dover, 1979) and cannot see how to properly compute half of one question. This should be a basic probability computation, but I ...
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What factors govern the variable age of onset in Huntington's Disease?
"Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and leads to cognitive decline and psychiatric problems." As we all know, this genetic disease ...
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How many people are required to maintain genetic diversity?
Imagine humans were to colonize a distant planet and it was a single one-way trip. How many people would they need to bring?
Obviously 2 is the minimum, but that would result in a lot of inbreeding.
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What kind of event would cause the current Mitochondrial Eve to be replaced by a new one?
Apparently all living humans are matrilineal descendants of a single woman who lived 200.000 years ago. She is called Mitochondrial Eve.
But at the time she lived there was a different matrilineal ...
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Have there been any experiments that duplicate chromosome copies from 23*2 to 23*3 or 23*4?
Deinococcus radiodurans is an amazing bacterium with a fantastic survival rate. It can survive to high doses of radiation, in a complete vacuum and in hydrochloric acid.
How does this bacterium ...
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why genetics R&D advances so slowly? [closed]
I'm aware this question may sound stupid but I'm wondering why the research & development in genetics is advancing so slowly compared with the IT world. Is it a problem of funding , ethics, ...
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Predictable microchimerism
I read in New Scientist recently that microchimerism occurs between previously born siblings and grandparents, not just the mother.
Do we know which parts of the genome are likely to be transferred? ...
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Number of beneficial mutations cataloged?
I can see from Wikipedia that there are possibly thousands of harmful mutations that have been cataloged and linked to disease. There are also unnumbered neutral mutations. But, does anyone know how ...
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Genetic effects on personality
It is said that genes are partly responsible for the choices we make in our life; our genes help to create our environment, and then that environment can influence our personality. So, beside genes, ...
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How is eye color in humans inherited?
In high school we studied the inheritance of eye color, as it was explained to us in the most simple way: blue eye color is a recessive, monogenic, autosomal trait. Now I know that it is a bit more ...
