Always last to the bar? Blame your 'mean genes'. Around one in four of us carry the gene we've inherited from our parents.

总是最后一个到达酒吧？那就要怪你的“吝啬基因”。我们四个人中间大约就有一个人携带有吝啬基因，而这种基因是我们从我们的父母那里继承来的。

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Always last to the bar? Blame your "mean genes". Around one in four of us carry the gene we "ve inherited from our parents."

总是最后一个到达酒吧？那就要怪你的“吝啬基因”。我们四个人中间大约就有一个人携带有吝啬基因，而这种基因是我们从我们的父母那里继承来的。

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That does not mean the gene or genes in question actually cause lung cancer. Rather, it means that they amplify the effects of smoking instead of the amount of smoking.

实际上，这并不意味着此处所讨论的基因或基因组会造成肺癌，而是说它们放大了吸烟的影响而非吸烟的强度。

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But just because this population is an ideal place to mine for bad genes doesn't mean those genes will be found, or that once they are found they will lead to valuable drugs or even genetic tests.

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Some genes when present mean 100% certainty that you will get a disease, but some raise your risk only 5%.

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As for CroV, those 544 genes (composed of 730, 000 base pairs, the DNA letters in which the language of the genes is written) mean its genome is bigger than those of several bacteria creatures which everyone agrees are alive.

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