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Buckeye_Democrat

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5. Our ancestors! Well, ancestral cousins.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 01:47 PM

Feb 2022

Fish have the same gene that's defective for me and some of my siblings.

The defect can cause early blindness in humans, with some mineralization of elastic tissues located near the endochondral bones.

Fish don't survive it, though. Their bones are a mangled mess before they can even hatch. It's not considered a bone disease in people at all, so humans apparently have other genes to help compensate for the genetic defect?

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