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Genentech took a sample of my DNA at TED and set it to music.

They looked at four SNPs, or point mutations, in particular:

• KIBRA – short term memory – rs17070145, C vs T 55%/45% [TT or CT – increased memory]

• ACTN3 – Sprinter gene – rs1815739, T vs C 63% vs 37% [CC or CT – sprinter muscle]

• ADRA2A – Sweet tooth – rs1800544, G vs C 52% vs 48% [GG = sweet tooth]

• AHR – Caffeine consumption – rs4410790, T vs C 51% vs 49% [CC = higher caffeine consumption]

7 responses to “My DNA Expressed in Song”

  1. And with a nod to the Nature via Nurture resonance, they also have four environmental factors that modulate the music:

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    Here we are listening to one combination: city, social, weekend warrior, drive-thru.

    And here is my song

    The hills are alive, with the sound of mutations
    With songs they have sung for a thousand years

  2. A, C, and G are all musical notes, but what to do about the T?

  3. well, if the medium is the messenger RNA, then we could swap out for Uracil… And that makes it a song about U.

    I thought they should be playing Sing Your Life in the lounge.

  4. interesting… sing your DNA… some version of glass bead game:)

  5. wonderful connections those.,.. I just created a genetic archaeology set to collect the myriad analyses. I have a full genome sequence coming up, so that should provide a lot of interesting data to come…

    And this just out, an absolutely brilliant remix of the TED2012 talks… Sing your TED

  6. Genetic drive is 99.999% variation induced by shuffling of the genome during reproduction and only .0001% "mutation." Even hard shifts in the "punctuated equilibrium" continuum. The genome of LIFE.exe on earth has evolved to evolve. The mechanism for evolution is built in (does not depend on deleterious mutation for critical drive).

  7. and programming of the future will likely be the concatenation of existing code… But the complexity accumulates from the imperfect transmission…

    Meanwhile, Genentech has put the attendees songs into a symphony

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