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You may have heard of this gene, which is called APOE, because of its known effect on Alzheimer’s disease risk. It codes for a protein called APOE (apolipoprotein E) that is involved in cholesterol transport and processing, and it has three variants: e2, e3, and e4. Of these, e3 is the most common by far, but having one or two copies of the e4
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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By the turn of the century, however, a number of biochemists disagreed with Miescher’s questioning of nuclein’s potential. They suggested that it was nuclein, not protein, that transmitted heredity.10 Nonetheless, that nascent idea was firmly stamped out, largely by the work of one man—Phoebus Levene, the esteemed head of the chemistry department
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Ridley, Matt. Génome: Autobiographie de l'espèce humaine en vingt-trois chapitres, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2001.