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Don't mean to spam the group, there just happened to be several interesting articles today. :)
How Our Genomes Control Diversity
I mainly wanted to point out this quote at the end of the first page (emphasis mine):
"What's interesting about the SNPs is that the variants have opposite effects on the sexes," says deCODE's chief executive officer Kari Stefansson. According to the new study, one of the locations on the gene, known as RNF212, is associated with high rates of recombination in men, but low rates in women; for the other marker, the gender effect is reversed.
"If you were going to design a mechanism to keep rates within [certain] limits you would do exactly this," Stefansson explains about the gender paradigm. "For one generation, it leads to higher recombination rate; for the next generation, it would lead to a lower recombination rate."
I love how chance/randomness can produce an ideal result. /sarcasm
How Our Genomes Control Diversity
I mainly wanted to point out this quote at the end of the first page (emphasis mine):
"What's interesting about the SNPs is that the variants have opposite effects on the sexes," says deCODE's chief executive officer Kari Stefansson. According to the new study, one of the locations on the gene, known as RNF212, is associated with high rates of recombination in men, but low rates in women; for the other marker, the gender effect is reversed.
"If you were going to design a mechanism to keep rates within [certain] limits you would do exactly this," Stefansson explains about the gender paradigm. "For one generation, it leads to higher recombination rate; for the next generation, it would lead to a lower recombination rate."
I love how chance/randomness can produce an ideal result. /sarcasm