• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    presence of certain chromosomes

    well, the presence of certain hormones that are usually regulated by some genes on certain chromosomes

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      And the reception of those hormones, which may not exist or may not be functional for some people.

      Turns out making beings out of trillions of cells of 100s of types (all of which have basically the same 3 or 6 billion base pair genome, yet have to act very differently) is complicated and any process has many steps, which involve various genes, receptors, signals, etc, all of which could be interrupted.