I'm thinking 23*2 + 1 for mtDNA=47 partial parents. This would hugely accelerate the rate of human evolution. If this can be made to work before CRISPR becomes safe its effects will initially be as large. But we still need genetic editing to eliminate genetic load mutations.
So we're all talking about embryo selection, but have you heard of CHROMOSOME selection and DONATION? Yeah, you could be having a kid who has 24 different partial-parents. Imagine the family dinners. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26485770 pic.twitter.com/u8voqnybhf
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Right you are. You could actually mix up many of mitochondria sources to increase the number a lot.
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Yep, I remember that thread. One could perhaps automatize this micro editing stuff so that all embryos have euploidy. Right now a lot of them are useless for polygenic selection due to wrong chromosome count.
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“He has your eyes” goes from being a polite conversation statement to a footnote in a 246 page introductory statement of genetic liabilities to a multi-level DNA analysis report.
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Huh. Maybe 'optimal chromosome selection' isn't as pointless a thing to contemplate as I thought.
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Heimdall.
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Better yet, child support deliberations ...
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Wasn't there an '80s movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito about something like that ?
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For some reason I'm now imagining all of the 15 authors of that paper co-parenting.
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