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title: Brain chromosomes may be different
date: "2002-12-19T12:00:00Z"
categories:
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wp_id: 992
description: I discovered that brain cells may not share identical genetic makeup with the rest of the body. Recent findings suggest neurons can gain or lose chromosomes, fundamentally challenging the assumption of genomic consistency across all human cells.
keywords: [neuroscience, chromosomes, genome, aneuploidy, brain cells, genetics]
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While I thought that every cell in the human body had identical genetic make-up, it turns out that [brain cells could have gained or lost some chromosomes](http://www.nature.com/nsu/021216/021216-2.html). Now, that's a pretty big discovery. [via missing matter](http://missingmatter.net/article.pl?sid=02/12/18/1611241)