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by bsder 2389 days ago
> thats the danger. If these edits become available broadly, youre not only worrying about co-expressions of edit genes developed at the same time, but edit genes developed at any time in the past (oh and also the rest of the human genome, which we still dont understand fully, and is a base concern for any gene editing whatsoever)

<shrug> Then people who chose that mating pair will get weeded out. It sucks to be the individual victims of that, but that's not a big deal for the species.

In addition, biological systems almost always have variation. Even Ebola isn't 100% fatal. So, even if you have an interaction, some people will have another mutation that deactivates the interaction.