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re: Researchers Identify 6,500 Genes That Are Expressed Differently in Men and Women
Posted on 5/8/17 at 8:26 pm to onmymedicalgrind
Posted on 5/8/17 at 8:26 pm to onmymedicalgrind
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6,500 genes is a vast difference
I should say so. Only a few hundred genes make you a man, and not a rat.
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:06 pm to scrooster
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There's never been any doubt that the two genders are vastly different in many ways.
You, sir, are full of shite. Men and women are exactly the same in every way.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:11 pm to UGATiger26
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And people seriously believe that shite (mostly progressives). It's about as anti-science as you can get.
The idea that Progressives criticize anybody else as "anti-Science" is laughable. Those people generally "believe" some really twisted stuff. It's their religion.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:17 pm to UGATiger26
You would think after David Reimer blew his brains out with a sawed off shotgun, the left would have run screaming from this political shite sandwich once and for all. Alas, the so-called party of science doubled down on social fantasy.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:27 pm to L.A.
Something tells me that most of the posters in this thread either didn't read or doesn't understand what's being said.
They aren't saying that there are 6500 different genes between men and women. They're saying that the identical genes are expressed at different levels.
They aren't saying that there are 6500 different genes between men and women. They're saying that the identical genes are expressed at different levels.
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Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently uncovered thousands of human genes that are expressed – copied out to make proteins – differently in the two sexes.
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They eventually identified around 6,500 genes with activity that was biased toward one sex or the other in at least one tissue. For example, they found genes that were highly expressed in the skin of men relative to that in women’s skin, and they realized that these were related to the growth of body hair. Gene expression for muscle building was higher in men; that for fat storage was higher in women.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:32 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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You think 6,500 genes is a vast difference?
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Do you have any idea how large our genome is?
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I've seen numbers as low as 19,000 and as high as 24,000. Even at 24,000 genes, 6,500 would roughly be 1/4.
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onmymedicalgrind
Well that's embarrassing.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:03 am to KamaCausey_LSU
quote:That's what they're saying. It's significant.
They eventually identified around 6,500 genes with activity that was biased toward one sex or the other in at least one tissue.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:17 am to L.A.
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That's what they're saying. It's significant
Right, but some posters are implying that it is saying that men and women have 6500 different genes.
It's not saying that at all. For example, it seems to me to be saying that men express the gene for body hair growth more than women. So the issue here isn't with the genetic makeup, it's our understanding of how genes are expressed.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:20 am to KamaCausey_LSU
Hmm, I wasn't getting that from the other posters. I'm reading their comments as understanding that this news is further biological confirmation of the difference between the sexes
This post was edited on 5/9/17 at 12:29 am
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