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Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

robwwilliams

Need to read this asap, but 6.5% is an exceedingly small effect size and not robust given many confounding developmental and technical factors. The typical coefficient of error between volumes of even large brain regions in genetically identical mice is usually well over 5%. And I suspect the transgene inly tested on on genetic background—-usually C57BL/6J.

Will emend this post tomorrow with corrections after reading carefully. I can say with reasonsble assurance that no one has measured and weighed more mouse brains than I have ;-) (except you John Wong)

sshine

Heck, if you give mice all of our DNA, they’ll become exactly like us!

tracker1

Can't help but think of this movie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH

irrational

The book is better, but... yeah, this was my first thought too.

pavel_lishin

What a cute little mouse. We should get him some flowers.

msie

Uh oh. No.

Buttons840

"The same thing we do every night..."