The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
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Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
More amazing (to me) was that a doctor actually solved this problem effectively. A few times that I went to doctors with minor problems in the last decade, they usually had no clue what's wrong (they even admitted it), but prescribed antibiotics.
I imagine the biggest challenge your doctors faced was diagnosis. It's a lot easier to treat someone when you can diagnose them at a glance.
Blue skin is a symptom, not a diagnosis. I doubt the doctor who saw him could immediately diagnose it, however he didn’t give up and cracked that case eventually (and even found the cure!)
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes both. Sickle cell anemia gives you slightly better odds of surviving malaria for instance.
Sickle cell anemia is Mendelian and recessive. So if 2 carriers (Rr and Rr) have kids, 50% of the children will be strictly superior (carriers), 25% will be normal, and 25% will die young. Not a bad outcome, especially if you have a lot of kids to reduce the variance.
> 50% of the children will be strictly superior (carriers)
Is that domain nomenclature? Because I wouldn't call having to be careful who procreate with otherwise risk losing 25% of my children from that relationship as "strictly superior"...
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#34The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
Maybe it is using the same effect as “Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall”
https://hbr.org/2012/03/hard-to-read-fonts-promote-better-re...
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#35Weird. I worked with a guy once whose parents believed colloidal silver would cure him of his ADD. Instead he turned blue.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#36The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
Maybe it is using the same effect as “Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall” https://hbr.org/2012/03/hard-to-read-fonts-promote-better-re...
You're too kind
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#37This reads like one of those ai generated stories...
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#38The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
The just copied it from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autorecessive.svg
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#39here you go https://i.imgur.com/NsD71Kh.jpg
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
#40Some real gems in this article- “I’m kin to myself” and “she was as blue a woman as I ever saw” (how many blue people have you seen?)
I think that is meant in humour