most diseases are not purely genetic,“I love this paper. Zeroing in on one extraordinarily famous individual — it feels a little bit like time travel,” said Robert C. Green, a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who was not involved in the research. “It isn’t so much the specific questions they answered as the fact that they ruled a few things out, searched for others, and made some truly original findings.
The team had a second essential element: consent from Beethoven himself, in the form of the written pleas to his brothers for his hearing loss to be studied. A study of the Hiller lock more than two decades ago suggested that the composer was afflicted by lead poisoning, which could have explained some of his illnesses.
hereditary causes of illness, they did not find any. They then used “polygenic risk scores,” which examine the risk for diseases that may have a genetic contribution but can also have environmental causes.
Wapo makes the mistake of quantifying humanity through its DNA. Wapo also propagates race as a basis for political argument. Yet race has no scientific basis.
i don't for one moment believe that those are samples from his own head he famously wore wigs and people lie. ..sooooo🤷♀️
Genome {ju h-no-ma h} What was never discovered in W _ _ _ _?
Creepy
Hail technology!
Looking forward to reading more about Beethoven’s irritable bowel syndrome.
ancestrydna 23andMe - have you added his DNA to the database? Why not get others with defined genealogy like Sons & Daughters of American Revolution, kings and queens, and sultans, etc.?
Fascinating.
Can we clone him instead of putting antlers on mice?
Clone Beethoven
There is no way that dog is over 200 years old. I’ve seen all the movies as a kid.
gross levels: confused
Let's make a new one.
This was fascinating! Beethoven wrote some of his most famous symphonies with a total loss of hearing! Many don’t know that until Beethoven, musicians arranged symphonies by working w/ all the musicians by ear, Beethoven gave a written language to music
Here we go 🧟♂️
But for what purpose? Tracing a family line? Learning about his deafness? Cloning another musical genius?
Already looking forward to Jurassic World: Ode to Joy
Enough dna to clone one?
🤔like dog or the composer? Asking because i will not be opening the link
Beethoven - as long as humanity survives, so will his genius. If only there had been a way to tell him, during his lifetime, how much he would be loved for the transcendent music he heard in his mind and put to paper. .
Now do Michelle Obama
For two centuries, the German composer’s medical ailments have been a source of fascination.
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