Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait

Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by dkural on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:39PM (#17377154)

While this is not my specialty, the field of "evo-devo" and developmental biology is the field trying to answer those questions. Honestly, we still know very little about how the genome results in morphology.

It is a lot more like a cellular automaton than anything else. From minute gradient differences inside the fertilized egg, recursively structure spreads out in very much a cellular automata like fashion. Cells respond to the bio-mechanical stress around them and to the signals they bathe in, to decide cellular fate, and in turn release new signals..

It's a very different paradigm of computation than the one we think of. Each cell is like a docker instance, containing the full source code. Perhaps these links explain a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6vkDr_Dec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mCgHK-X6lE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZOdrU1Du0

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Re:Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait by resource0x on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:44PM (#17397101)

Analog computer switching to digital mode, and back to analog, and back to digital, etc... ? Something is extremely fishy here. Looks like highly intelligent series of operations, much beyond whatever we can imagine.

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