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Dr. Minugh-Purvis said it was unclear how the mutation could have become fixed in the species, given the potentially deleterious effects of any sudden, drastic change in a species' chewing and eating apparatus.

At the eighth annual retrovirus meeting here, they reported evidence suggesting that the mutation could have a negative effect for people infected with the hepatitis C virus, which causes potentially fatal liver disease.

They find it implausible that the necessary mutation could have happened simultaneously across group M's range which their data suggest would have to have been the case.

Dr. Weiss agreed that the mutation could have led to some differences in the muscle structure of hominids, but said other changes, the dietary among them, were already in progress and contributed to the traits setting the genus Homo apart from its predecessors.

In an accompanying critique, Dr. Pete Currie, a developmental biologist in Sydney, Australia, who called the hypothesis seductive, wrote that the Penn researchers presented "convincing arguments as to how the mutation could have been responsible" for ancestral hominids' acquisition of more humanlike traits.

Or a different sort of mutation could have caused the dedicated bitter neurons to have lots of standard glucose detectors, which did not exist on those neurons before — a shift that also would have made the insects register sweet glucose as bitter.

The researchers were also able to show several sequences in which the seven mutations could have occurred without the protein's functionality ever deteriorating.

Implementing this strategy in patients harboring H3F3A G34 mutations could have immense therapeutic benefit.

Of course any of these mutations could have a dramatic effect, which we don't know right now.

Researchers have been working to develop ways that women who carry mtDNA mutations could have biological children without passing on the defect.

As it turns out, the same mutations could have been found by sequencing only the protein-coding regions of the genome called exome sequencing for about $4000.