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Strenuous exercise may help slow aging process, study says - JSOnline
For years, a mantra of medicine has been that you can't do much about your genetic makeup.
A new study has found, however, that strenuous, long-term exercise may have anti-aging properties by virtue of its effect on chromosomes.
"People automatically assume there's not anything you can do about your genetics," said Patrick McBride, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. "We can exercise our chromosomes." -
The Human Family Tree Main Page- National Geographic Channel
Home page for the show including multimedia visuals and articles.
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The Big Idea — Genography — National Geographic Magazine
Map showing the historical distribution of homo sapiens around the planet. Excellent visual showing the connection between us all.
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Science Centric | News | Show me your DNA and I'll tell you your eye colour
Eye color is a complex trait controlled by about six different genes. Scientists have are now better able to determine the DNA sequence that would predict eye color. This has other implications for disease prevention and criminal investigations.
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Human eye colour, which is determined by the extent and type of pigmentation on the eye's iris, is what geneticists call a 'complex trait.' This means that several genes control which colour the eyes will ultimately have. Over the past decades a number of such 'eye-colour genes' have been identified, and people with different eye colour, will have a different DNA sequence at certain points in these genes.
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found that the eye colour of a given individual can be predicted with over 90% confidence already with the best 6 SNPs from 6 genes, as long as the persons's eyes are blue or brown. For the intermediate colour, shown by about 10% of the people tested, the accuracy is lower at about 75%.
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