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S5.14 Genes, brains and the mind: How much of your personality is encoded in your DNA?

Genetics Unzipped

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The Problem of Genetic Variation in the Human Genome

In the nervous system, there are hundreds of different cell types. And they're designed in circuits to do different kinds of computations in different parts of the brain. So that's the problem that the genome in a way in a sense has to solve. But we all have our own individual variation on that for making a brain like ours.

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