Mutants may be a wonderful thing in science fiction, but scientists discovered humans have in common with a number of X-men characters. Like what?
Scientists discover, each human family has 60 different mutations in their genes. Although super-human strength not such Wolverine, the results show amazing things.
The findings of Wellcome Trust Institute in Cambridge and two other institutes in the United States (U.S.) and Canada revealed that each man gets 60 mutations in the genome of the parents.
In addition, the human genome (23 pairs of chromosomes) is mutated in the sperm and human egg cells produced no change in human DNA found in older people. To try and ascertain how 'mutant' human, scientists are studying the gene's father, mother and child.
Looking for new mutations in children, researchers were 'combing' six thousand possibilities in each genome sequences. The result is very challenging, one of the 100 million letters of DNA mutually transform each other in each generation.
These results are very surprising scientists, in a single family, 92% of mutations derived from the child's father. Dr. Matt Huries from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute said, "Now we know, in some families, the majority of mutations arise from the mother and the other from the father."
The team plans to investigate further in order to determine the effect of aging parents and the environment on the number of mutations. In addition, further research could also be used to identify genetic diseases.
The results of this study were published in the journal Nature Genetics.
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