Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Full Auto Stop
Actually with regards to twins - you're wrong.

There are plenty of studies -- and right now I'm too sleepy to find them -- where genetically identical twins, but only one has a disease.

I went to high school with a set of twins like this -- one had muscular dystrophy, the other did NOT. BUT the one who didn't had the gene to "have" it. But for some reason it didn't switch "on." There are geneticists out there who study this to see what makes the genes flip on -- cause if they could figure that out, you never know what they could cure or prevent.

And I'm sleepy so that's a rather half baked explanation. . .I'll look for sources/studies later.
60 posted on 07/27/2003 9:20:46 AM PDT by twinzmommy (Yes, I'm a mom of twins myself)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]


To: twinzmommy
where genetically identical twins, but only one has a disease.

More proof that the twin studies are erroneous.

to see what makes the genes flip on

Can you point to the genetic marker for homosexuality please?

75 posted on 07/27/2003 11:00:26 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson