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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Lex Fridman Podcast
Genetic Predisposition to AMD
Our understanding of disease has changed so dramatically with genetics. One of the worst things about my genome is that I have a genetic predisposition to age-related macular degeneration, AMD. The genes that lead to the predisposition give us insights as to how does it actually work. And there's something called genetic exceptionalism, which basically thinks of genetics as something very, very different than everything else as a type of determinism.
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