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Rethinking Genetic Determinism
With only 30,000 genes, what is it that makes humans human?
The Scientist 2004, 18(10):32
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For more than 50 years scientists have operated under a set of seemingly incontrovertible assumptions about genes, gene expression, and the consequences thereof. Their mantra: One gene yields one protein; genes beget messenger RNA, which in turn begets protein; and most critically, the gene is deterministic in gene expression and can therefore predict disease propensities.
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