Vegetarian populations carry metabolic mutation
Researchers have found a genetic variant in populations that have favoured vegetarian diets over many generations...
Alternate forms of a gene or DNA sequence (genetic variant) at a particular chromosome location.
For example, different alleles of the ABO gene on human chromosome 9 determine ABO blood type.
Researchers have found a genetic variant in populations that have favoured vegetarian diets over many generations...
A man discovered he was not the genetic father of his child, due to a rare form of chimerism that means some of his cells carry a genome belonging to an unborn twin who died in the womb...
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by Jess Ware
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