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So in a way, I created sort of a genetic social network.
For poison dart frogs and many other animals with neurotoxic defenses, a few genetic changes alter the structure of the alkaloid-binding site just enough to keep the neurotoxin from exerting its adverse effects.
The garter snake, which dines on neurotoxic salamanders, has evolved resistance to salamander toxins through some of the same genetic changes as the salamanders themselves.
Grasshopper mice resist painful venom from scorpion prey through genetic changes in their nervous systems.
For one thing, its ancestors changed the earth in ways that made it possible for us to evolve, and hidden in its genetic code is a blueprint that may inspire ways to reduce our dependency on fossil fuel.
And about that time, it became possible to sequence their genomes and really look under the hood and look at their genetic makeup.
Following the Human Genome Project in 2003, which was an international effort to identify the complete genetic blueprint of a human being, a genomics revolution happened.
Now I can understand why there may be concerns about the safety of this level of genetic manipulation.
One of the genetic factors that we don't understand, however, is the difference that we see in terms of males and females.
And we can look in particular at three types of siblings: identical twins, twins that actually share 100 percent of their genetic information and shared the same intrauterine environment, versus fraternal twins, twins that actually share 50 percent of their genetic information, versus regular siblings, brother-sister, sister-sister, also sharing 50 percent of their genetic information, yet not sharing the same intrauterine environment.
So this provides some of the data that autism is genetic.
Well, how genetic is it?
And so in fact, in some individuals with autism, it is genetic!
However, in other individuals, it's genetic, that is, that it's actually a combination of genes in part with the developmental process that ultimately determines that risk for autism.
In certain individuals, they can have autism for a reason that is genetic but yet not because of autism running in the family.
And the reason is because in certain individuals, they can actually have genetic changes or mutations that are not passed down from the mother or from the father, but actually start brand new in them, mutations that are present in the egg or the sperm at the time of conception but have not been passed down generation through generation within the family.
To do that, we actually had to comprehensively be able to look at all that genetic information and determine what those differences were between the mother, the father and the child.
Our genetic information is organized into a set of 46 volumes, and when we did that, we had to be able to account for each of those 46 volumes, because in some cases with autism, there's actually a single volume that's missing.
We had to get more granular than that, though, and so we had to start opening those books, and in some cases, the genetic change was more subtle.
In doing this within these families, we were able to account for approximately 25 percent of the individuals and determine that there was a single powerful genetic factor that caused autism within those families.
Each symbol is a colony, and the size of the symbol is how many offspring it had, because we were able to use genetic variation to match up parent and offspring colonies, that is, to figure out which colonies were founded by a daughter queen produced by which parent colony.
And so our next step is to look for the genetic variation underlying this resemblance.
It propelled me to go on and to co-lead a team that discovered the first cancer susceptibility gene, and in the intervening decades since then, there has been literally a seismic shift in our understanding of what goes on, what genetic variations are sitting behind various diseases.
We're just learning the words, the fragments, the letters in the genetic code.
A vast majority of those people are not necessarily carrying a particular genetic load or risk factor.
Maybe we should look not just here but in remote places where their might be a distinct genetic context, there might be environmental factors that protect people.
Once life on Earth had access to multicellularity and sophisticated genetic structures, and sex, new opportunities opened up: animals became possible.
Partly, this is because of DNA and genetic testing, but partly, it's because of the Internet.
Many people, most people at the time, viewed the Holocaust as sort of representing some tragic flaw on the part of the Germans, some genetic taint, some authoritarian personality.
Genetic engineering and bioengineering are creating a whole bunch of great new opportunities for chemistry, for computation, for memory.
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