Researchers at Cambridge and Cardiff have found that, on average, a normal healthy person carries approximately 400 potentially damaging DNA variants and two variants known to be associated directly with disease traits. They showed that one in ten people studied is expected to develop a genetic disease as a consequence of carrying these variants.
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-deleterious-disease-causing-genetic-variants-healthy.html#jCp
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-deleterious-disease-causing-genetic-variants-healthy.html#jCp
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