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by e_modad 3990 days ago
Craig Venter says here[1] that Franz Och (of Google Translate fame) has done some analysis for his new company Human Longevity Inc that shows that about 50% of the genome is responsible for the brain. So the number is quite big and much larger than I would have thought. Excited to see more results from HLI.

Comment at 13:12 [1] https://youtu.be/D3nIIKwwiLc?t=11m43s
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bohm 3990 days ago
Which is interesting considering we share about 85% of our genome with Zebra Fish.
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e_modad 3990 days ago
Source? That sounds a little high.
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bohm 3990 days ago
From memory, but maybe a slight overstatement:

http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/article01036.html

70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), and 84 per cent of genes known to be associated with human disease have a zebrafish counterpart.

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