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Dr Blumberg became fascinated by polymorphism, the study of inherited variations in human beings.
For purposes of comparison, the researchers also examined inherited variations in 13 genes that determine levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol.
Blood antigens of man include inherited variations, and the particular combination of antigens in an individual is almost as unique as fingerprints and has been used in such areas as paternity testing (although this approach has been largely supplanted by DNA-based techniques).
Dr. Blumberg's traced his fascination with inherited variations in susceptibility to disease to the volunteer service he did during medical school at an isolated mining town in northern Surinam, where he delivered babies, performed clinical services and undertook the first malaria survey done in that region.
The "natural selection" theory by Charles Darwin stipulated that all organisms arise and develop through small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
Today is the 74th birthday of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to blood screening and a vaccine against hepatitis B. As chief of the geographic medicine and genetics section of the National Institutes of Health, Blumberg traveled the world and collected blood samples from remote ethnic groups to study inherited variations in blood proteins.
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This was proof of the immense amount of inherited variation, and of the ability of inheritance, blended and directed, to take new directions.
Because inherited variation is largely handled by genes in the chromosomes, organisms that reproduce sexually require a single-cell stage in their life cycle, during which the haploid gamete of each parent can combine to form the diploid zygote.
These people also brought with them the inherited variation that permits the digestion of milk in maturity – much of the world becomes intolerant to the milk sugar lactose after infancy – and they may even have brought the language that became what is now Irish.
It remains largely unknown what sort of genetic variants explain inherited variation in complex traits, but recent evidence suggests that common genetic variants will explain at least some of the inherited variation in susceptibility to common disease.
Evolutionary psychology regards the human mind as evolving through a conventional process of natural selection acting on genetically inherited variation.
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