Notes on Mutants

Some interesting tidbits, though most thrown out without justification or reference, from Mutants:

• A polymorphism is a mutation that is common (enough) in the population.  Roughly figured around one percent of the population.  Using this definition, at least one polymorphism is present in about 65% of all genes.

• Each new embryo gets about 100 mutations during copying.  Of these, four will imply changes in resulting proteins.  Of these four, three will be harmful.