A second highly selected gene, LYST, is associated with pigmentation, and changes in it are probably responsible for the blanching of the ancestors’ brown fur. Computer analysis for the multiple mutations of the gene showed that they too were almost certainly damaging to its function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In fact, of all the mutations in the seventeen genes that were most highly selected, about half were predicted to damage the function of the respective coded proteins. Furthermore, since most altered genes bore several mutations, only three to six (depending on the method of estimation) out of seventeen genes were free of degrading changes [fn 2]. Put differently, 65 to 83 percent of helpful, positively selected<\/em> genes are estimated to have suffered at least one damaging<\/em> mutation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n fn 2 is Table S7 of Liu et al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can we work through this one item at a time to see what people agree with or disagree with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A second highly selected gene, LYST, is associated with pigmentation, and changes in it are probably responsible for the blanching of the ancestors’ brown fur. Computer analysis for the multiple mutations of the gene showed that they too were almost … Continue reading