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22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 07 July 2015 11:07:32PM 4 points [-]

Prediction: When CRISPR gets better someone is going to make a clone of himself absent mutational load.

Comment author: gjm 07 July 2015 11:40:40PM 3 points [-]

How would they identify what's a mutation and what isn't? (Extreme rarity in the rest of the population?) The first few people to try doing this will most likely be quite unusual people; how confident could they be that any given unusual allele in their genome is a likely-deleterious mutation rather than something that makes them unusual in a valuable way?

Comment author: James_Miller 07 July 2015 11:44:45PM 3 points [-]

Yes you eliminate extremely rare mutations.

how confident could they be that any given unusual allele in their genome is a likely-deleterious mutation rather than something that makes them unusual in a valuable way?

This is a risk.

Comment author: Manfred 08 July 2015 09:42:30PM 0 points [-]

I just want to get rid of the freaking lines and sines.