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Can gene therapy affect ethnicity?

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This would require a virus that edited numerous markers, ideally in all cells of the body. How many would have to be edited in order to give someone a convincing simulacrum of Finnish ancestry would depend on what their existing ancestry was. read more

But there are people who are who are ethnic Danes, ethnic Dutch, ethnic Irish or ethnic Swedish who have red hair. There are so many details and variations inwhat make people belong to a specific segment, that we can not define it by genes. read more

Gene therapy is also a good technique for diseases not researched yet. All of us carry defected genes and may not know it. Gene therapy is a 'medicine" for the future since it can control or eliminate hereditary diseases. The consequences of gene therapy are numerous at this time. As with anything not researched there are critics. read more

Gene therapy could be targeted to egg and sperm cells (germ cells), however, which would allow the inserted gene to be passed to future generations. This approach is known as germline gene therapy. The idea of germline gene therapy is controversial. read more

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