#RedditGenetics

Taking general genetics at a university and wondering if I’m just not used to upper level courses yet or if this genuinely is way too much material to learn for one exam.…

hi all!! for as long as i can remember everyone in my family has told me how they’ve never seen anybody with hair like mine each strand has lighter and darker bands making my hair essentially ringed the bands were originally blonde brown and almost a pink…

currently taking fundamental genetics in college and it is quite the journey... does anyone understand this problem or could help me work thru it? sincerely, a very confused college kid submitted by /u/AlbatrossCautious241 [link] [comments]

(Sources: Fenner 2005 · HYDE 3.1 · Rohde et al. 2004, Nature) submitted by /u/Tapash__ [link] [comments]

I just watched the old movie Star Trek Into Darkness with Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch. The villain Khan is a genetically engineered superhuman who is smarter, stronger and faster than almost every normal human.…

My queries Question 1 Can anyone, regardless of genetics, get a top 99.99 percentile score in, say, the NEET or JEE (Indian hyper competitive scientific entrance examinations for medicine and engineering)?…

I’m following SKY-0515 and votoplam closely, particularly their potential to slow Huntington’s disease before noticeable symptoms develop. SKY-0515 has reported up to 69% mutant huntingtin lowering in blood, alongside encouraging preliminary clinical…

Hi everyone! At the first-trimester genetic screening, the NT measured 3mm and nasal bone hypoplasia was noted. A week later, we had a CVS procedure done. By then, the NT was 2.9mm and the nasal bone had normalized.…

For context, I'm from Europe but I'd imagine most white Americans would be a mix of several white ethnicities and the same would probably go for black Americans with being a mix of a bunch of different African ethnicities Does this give them a distinct…

Hello! By the title you can correctly assume I'm not a geneticist, or scientist at all. But I'm a huge science fiction/horror fan. I know that science fiction takes a lot of liberties with how science acts in our world, but there is SOME truth to it and…

Hi everyone! I’m a final-year B.Sc. Biomedical Sciences student working with my team on an academic bioinformatics project focused on hereditary cancer variants.…

My dad recently passed away but we have a spare vial of his blood (we are using some of it for dna banking). I am interested in using some of this blood for whole genome sequencing.…

I found out a few weeks back that samurai were only 5'2-5'3(157cm-160cm). I started checking other groups height and found out literally every group was around 5'5(165cm) or smaller on avg with few exceptions yamnaya steppe who are said to be around…

Hello, I am a student in health sciences. I have recently come upon a simple question that I could not find the answer of: In mismatch repair (MMR), the basic function in E.Coli requires Mut H to attach to a partially methylated sequence GATC.…

The first genetic mutation I’m referring to is: the Val158Met polymorphism. The COMT gene encodes catechol-O-methyltransferase, an enzyme that breaks down synaptic dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE).…

I'm a sophomore in a 4-year nursing program. I was always into genetics in high school, but I chose nursing because of the vast opportunities it offers. Now that I'm in college, I'm wondering how I can incorporate genetics into my career.…

Dear all, I have just created the CDH1support community. It is dedicated to carriers of pathogenic variants (mutations) in the CDH1 gene. CDH1 is a diffuse gastric and lobular breast cancer susceptibility gene.…

I am right now in class 11 and just want to know if genetics is a good choice for undergrad 1. Is there a lot to explore? 2.does it pay well?…

I just found out the pregnancy I lost had mosaic (14%) monosomy 21 with complete homozygosity and suspected rescue. Some googling led me to learn that autosomal monosomies cause only 0.6% of miscarriages while autosomal trisomies cause 35%.…

I have a 50% chance to have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). Its a disease where ur kidneys inflate and fail completely, tho it normally happens between 30-50, this is quite a scary coin flip since it could decide the path my life…