Make no mistake, however: The effect of additional delay and more negotiations will not be to improve either the bill or the national security.

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This is either because they cause no change in the composition of the protein that the gene encodes (some apparently different genetic words actually have the same meaning to the protein-making apparatus), or because the change they make has no effect on the protein's function.

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Pal Suren, the lead author of the Norwegian study, says that no adjustments for parental age or other factors seemed to make a big difference in the size of the effect.

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