Random Genetics Facts

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    Baby Genetic Inheritance
    Baby Genetic Inheritance
    Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, and mothers their weight.
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    Laron Syndrome
    Laron Syndrome
    There is a genetic disease called Laron syndrome that results in short stature, longer life expectancy, and near immunity to cancer and diabetes - amongst other things.
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    There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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    The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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    There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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