Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Let's talk of chimeras and mosaics and people.

Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/20/patchwork-people

Identical twins, one case of Down syndrome: latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-twins-down-syndrome-genetics-20140416-story.html

The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests that human identity is not in our DNA: english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-05-08/the-fusion-of-two-sisters-into-a-single-woman-suggests-that-human-identity-is-not-in-our-dna.html

Jeremy Thorpe, Ikeoluwa A. Osei-Owusu, Bracha Erlanger Avigdor, Rossella Tuplerl, Jonathan Pevsner (2020) Mosaicism in Human Health and Disease. Annu. Rev. Genet. 2020. 54:487–510.

Vijg J (2000) Somatic mutations and aging: a re-evaluation. Mutation Research 447: 117–135.

Thompson DJ et al. (2019) Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood. Nature 575:652-657,

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