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    California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap

    No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans

    Volunteers Let Their Genomes All Hang Out

    Instant DNA Scan is SMRT, I Mean S-M-A-R-T

    Should Google be Able to Read Your Genome?

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/15/09

    In reply to California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap
    I hope I'm recalled back to my home planet before individual genetic sequencing becomes mandatory on this one. It would be difficult to explain why my DNA doesn't look at all like that of a human being... #genomesequence
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    11/15/09

    In reply to California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap
    What if I'm a mutant with dodecahelical DNA? How much does it cost then?

    Also, how much to have my genetic sequence rendered in lego? #genomesequence
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/15/09

    In reply to California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap
    So if "Complete Genomics" becomes a industry.. Should the acronym be CGI? #genomesequence
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/15/09

    In reply to California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap
    welcome to gataca. #genomesequence
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    11/15/09

    @GreyHammer: Considering the error rate, it would probably be Gacattac. #genomesequence
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    11/15/09

    @The_Sporean_Bob: Gak Attack! Nooooo! #genomesequence
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/15/09

    In reply to California Company Offers Genome Sequencing on the Cheap
    an error rate of 1 per 100,000 sounds good, but there are about 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, so you are looking at 30,000 errors. Most of these will be insignificant, but if major decisions are bieng made, the data better be darn good. #genomesequence
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/15/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: That is the real problem. We still no very little about how the whole system works together. There are already quite a few swindlers peddling procedures based on rough genomic information, so once this gets cheaper all the quacks are going to come out of the wood work.

    On the plus side, however, I will finally be able to prove emphatically that I do indeed have the sexy gene. #genomesequence
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/15/09

    @OW-Holmes: Bringer of Fear: But what will you do if one of those 30,000 errors occurs and "Sexy" gets misread as "Stinky?" #genomesequence
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    11/15/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: I was just having a similar arguement about Swine flu numbers earlier today.

    500,000 cases worldwide sounds horrible, until you run it agains 6 billion people.

    Which means you have a .000833 % chance of having gotten or getting swine flu.

    This is called a global pandemic, and the reason I get annoyed at the news. #genomesequence
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    Image of Sora-Chan Sora-Chan
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    I dont know, there is some evidence supporting that they did indeed crossbreed, such as a possible hybrid skeleton that was found. Also some remains that had some DNA they were able to extract that had something quite interesting, they had FOXP2, just like we did.


    For those of you who dont know what FOXP2 is, its a gene thats for languistics in humans, you know for talking to each other and what not.


    Now I guess its entirly possible that they evolved it on their own (very unlikly) got it from a common ancestor as us (more likly but still unlikly) or there was some crossbreeding involved that gave one speices it.


    Then theres the divergance of races in modern humans. Some scientists have said that there was too little time for there to become so many races that there are now without something interfering with the gene pool.


    As for some of you who mentioned Mules being sterile, thats not always true, every once in a while a donkey/horse (Mule) hybrid, will be fertile. Given enough time and a good number of them happening, we could have fertile mules breeding with each other and their parent speices.

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    Image of lilad lilad
    12/10/08

    @Sora-Chan: Races as a biological concept applied to humans is pretty meaningless.

    So I don't really know what you're saying.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    Well, hmmmmmmm. Don't really know what to make of this yet. When I studied physical anthropology in school, the assimilation theory was still quite strong. The idea was that the Neanderthal peoples weren't really all that different from the rest of us.


    But I guess that's going to change now.


    And I think some of these comments here have the faintest whiff of racism. The reason I say that is because Neanderthals are so close to us insofar as we can deduce their physical and mental characteristics from the tiny smattering of evidence we have that they all could be due to mere ethnic variation.


    Don't know what to make of this yet. I mean it's pretty hard to ignore DNA evidence.

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    Image of FREEBS72..The Flying Sumo FREEBS72..The Flying Sumo
    12/10/08

    @corpore-metal: WOW, that would really be a huge argument if they found a lost group of them somewhere(talking book material here). Racism against a race that did lose the Evolutionary Race long ago.
    That would bo a good read(if it was done well).
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    Image of lilad lilad
    12/10/08

    @FREEBS72..The Flying Sumo: I just finished an intro physical anthropology class, and the we were told that they may have interbred but it was more likely that Homo sapiens simply replaced Neandertals.

    But, it was also stressed that the Neandertals weren't that different from modern humans, and that the idea of Neandertals being brutish cavemen is wrong.
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    Image of JaviDecimal JaviDecimal
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    Are you sure?


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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    12/09/08

    @I ♥ Anderson: +1. "I'm just a caveman. Your 'strikes' and 'balls' frighten and confuse me."
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    I'm guessing the offspring were probably sterile. You know, like Ligers.
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    Image of GiltProto GiltProto
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    My uncle Bob is living proof that disputes these findings.
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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    12/11/08

    @GiltProto: So is my uncle Bob... I sense a trend.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    @The_Sporean_Bob: Yeah, I gotta go with the "mule," sterile offspring theory. Many closely related species can breed in a limited fashion, and, without further evidence, I would see no reason to expect otherwise in this case.
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    Image of hidflect hidflect
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    I think red hair is the product of 2 different recessive blond genes. Which is why the Scottish have so many red heads, having mixed Scandanavian and Anglo Saxon blood...
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/09/08

    @hidflect: another reason to keep a close eye on the Ginger Headed...and southpaws.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    12/09/08

    In reply to No Neanderthal Ancestors for Modern Humans
    Wasn't red hair one of the things that European homo sapiens supposedly inherited from Neanderthal forbears?
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