Andrew Huberman· PhD
There are different types of genes like that, and for some of them, if you mutate, if you disrupt their function, now the effect would transmit stably for hundreds of generations.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There are different types of genes like that, and for some of them, if you mutate, if you disrupt their function, now the effect would transmit stably for hundreds of generations.
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We later also identify genes that regulate for how long an effect would last. Otherwise, if in the beginning we ask how doesn't it stop after one generation, now we have to ask, why doesn't it last forever? And it doesn't typically, we see that the responses last not only with the viral resistance, but also with other traits. For a few generations, three to five generations, we found genes that function as a sort of a clock that times the duration of the inheritance.