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by Spellchamp 3023 days ago
The claim being made is that 7% of his DNA changed, not his genes.
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A 'gene' is a distinct set of DNA nucleotides. What changed were 7% of his gene's expression levels, across time. Which is not a particularly remarkable finding. If approximately the same 7% of genes changed for most astronauts after x months in space, then that would be more interesting. The 7% change is a n of 1 experiment.