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What will be the hardest desirable human traits to alter via DNA editing?

Beauty? It has a lot of factors involved - bone, muscle, skin, hair.. even though you will probably able to guarantee that there won't be anything seriously wrong with your bones, for example, I think you can't make it to have some beautiful shape by punctual gene edition.

>> No.10670210

>>10670202
Why do STEM fags think its ok to be so bad at writing?

>> No.10670222

>>10670202
Beauty depends almost only on enviromental factors

>> No.10670258

>>10670222
In females beauty is strongly associated with
estrogen levels, and that will probably be easy to edit

>> No.10670259

The most desirable genetic modification for the common mortal would be to wipe out alleles that confer strong risk of complex disease such as heart disease, schizophrenic, Alzheimer's, etc. Of course this could be a double-edged sword from an ecological perspective, but I think we can safely assume that the repercussions on human genomic diversity wouldn't be so grave. It'd arguably save a ton of money.

>> No.10670265

>>10670259
This would not be a long term solution, as risk alleles would slowly creep back into the population.

>> No.10670272

>>10670258
Hormone levels are mostly enviromental. Facial structure is mostly enviromental.
Intelligence depends more on genes than beauty

>> No.10670275

>>10670272
Wrong; has no meaning unless you specify what you’re talking about; absolutely useless and makes no difference to anything as intelligence is one of the most heritable identifying traits in humans but so is skin color and many MHC related systems.

>> No.10670276

>>10670210
They spend their time trying to work out puzzles and want the people who read their words to experience the same joy.

>> No.10670277

>>10670275
What has skin color to do with attractiveness?

>> No.10672361

>>10670276
That's fucking cogent bro.

>> No.10672389
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10672389

You all equally have no idea what you're talking about bc none of you actually know how polygenic each of the things are you just have measures of their heritability, which doesn't tell you anything about how many genes you'll have to edit in what way to make the required changes

>> No.10672416

>>10672389
yeah you're right, you're definitely the ONLY person who's ever studied biology.

all hail anon, the guy who studied plant bio for a few semesters and now understands the galaxy

>> No.10672693

>>10672416
I'm didn't claim to know so much more than everyone else, but I am complaining about those in the thread who act like something like heritability is in any way a measure of how difficult something might be to edit with DNA editing. There's so little we know about this kind of thing it's ridiculous for there to be so many anons so confident they have it right

>> No.10673034

Smart,white, tall, angular face.

>> No.10673078

>>10670202
Love the attractor op, mind sharing the init parameters ?

>> No.10673159

>>10670202
Engineering fox girls

>> No.10674179

>>10670202
Fuck that shit just I N c r e a s e d o N g