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And so in fact, identifying the genes for autism is important for us to identify drug targets, to identify things that we might be able to impact and can be certain that that's really what we need to do in autism.

Changing technology, changing genes, and a changing mindset.

These adults only live a few weeks, and now they're single-mindedly focused on sex, that is, on propelling their genes into the next firefly generation.

And let's go and then screen those to find those who are carrying genes for childhood diseases.

Let's take them all, and let's pull them back a little bit by those that are known to have severe symptoms, where the parents, the child, those around them would know that they'd gotten sick, and let's go ahead and then frame them again by those parts of the genes where we know that there is a particular alteration that is known to be highly penetrant to cause that disease.

What are our genes?"

And be careful, your genes are in danger.

It used to cost millions and millions of dollars to sequence genes.

This new device assembles genes on a chip, and instead of one error per 100 base pairs, it's one error per 10,000 base pairs.

Those are the molecular transcripts it's making of the specific genes that it's using to do its job.

It will be an atlas of all of the cell types in the human body and the specific genes that each cell type uses to do its job.

And something as complex as the function of our brains is shaped by the interaction of thousands of genes.

And each of these genes varies meaningfully from person to person to person, and each of us is a unique combination of that variation.

And he found that the more C4 protein our genes make, the greater our risk for schizophrenia.

And there are hundreds of cell types that use these genes in different combinations.

you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at the number of the genes and the number of alleles and so forth, and a back-of-the-envelope calculation will tell you there are about 10 to the 10,000th possible humans, genetically.

The science of epigenetics looks at those molecular mechanisms, those intricate ways in which our DNA is literally shaped, genes turned on and off based on the exposures to the environment, to where we live and to where we work.

Now, a root cause analysis, in healthcare, usually says, well, let's look at your genes, let's look at how you're behaving.

Unlike DNA, which is mainly fixed, microRNAs can vary depending on internal and environmental conditions at any given time, telling us which genes are actively expressed at that particular moment.

It is the uncontrolled regulation of genes.

Or you can view it as an evolutionary psychology kind of thing: did our genes invent this as a kind of trick to get us to behave in certain ways?

The ant's brain, parasitized, to make us behave in certain ways so that our genes would propagate?

You know, we went into it thinking, 40,000 or 50,000 human genes and we came out with only 23,000.

Just to give you grounds for comparison, rice: 35,000 genes.

Cultures, as specialists have shown, change faster than genes.

But one thing that you might want to think about blaming is your genes.

Well, when we want to unpack the relative contributions of genes and the environment, what we can do is a twin study.

Identical twins share 100 percent of their environment and 100 percent of their genes, whereas nonidentical twins share 100 percent of their environment, but just like any brother and sister, share only 50 percent of their genes.

So by comparing how similar GCSE results are in identical twins versus nonidentical twins and doing some clever maths, we can get an idea of how much variation in performance is due to the environment, and how much is due to genes.

And it turns out that it's about 58 percent due to genes.

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