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How Many Mutations Does Each Human Have?

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NosyNed
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09-11-2006 8:36 PM

I'ver read here (and other places) and even posted that each individual human has from around 5 to maybe 100 mutations.
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But how do we know that?
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For here a mutation is a difference in genetics in an individual from his parents that is not a result of the meiosis processes.
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I would accept mouse studies as being applicable to humans. Perhaps fruit flies but might consider bacterial studies to be rather a large extrapolation.
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This belongs in bio evol or miscelaneous I think.
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09-11-2006 8:43 PM

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