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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person (www.nature.com)

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[–] A_A@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These studies are promising :

The accumulation of DNA mutations in some cells over time can cause cancer, (...)
It is a much greater challenge to sequence DNA from individual cells, because there are only two copies of the genome to work with, (...)

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I'm super far from a biological/genealogical scientist. What's promising about that?

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

... impossible to say right now, yet, I look at this as a new paradigm. Like, instead of looking at the animal kingdom and saying they are all animals, being able to distinguish between many different species, but for the body : the previous understanding was that our cells had the same genetic code and now the Horizon widens to show a whole new diversity we didn't know about.
i believe it's the start of a new science.