{"id":35281,"date":"2014-01-03T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35281"},"modified":"2014-01-03T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:52:44","slug":"dna-double-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35281","title":{"rendered":"DNA Double Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/17\/science\/dna-double-take.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">DNA Double Take<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-09-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carlzimmer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Zimmer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From biology class to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation\" target=\"_blank\">C.S.I.<\/a>,\u201d we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person\u2019s genetic information \u2014 or, as 23andme, a prominent genetic testing company, says on its Web site, \u201cThe more you know about your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a>, the more you know about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But scientists are discovering that \u2014 to a surprising degree \u2014 we contain genetic multitudes. Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. <strong>But scientists are finding that it\u2019s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/17\/science\/dna-double-take.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA Double Take The New York Times 2013-09-16 Carl Zimmer From biology class to \u201cC.S.I.,\u201d we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person\u2019s genetic information \u2014 or, as 23andme, a prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[16695,2327],"class_list":["post-35281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-carl-zimmer","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}