Cytosis can be used to teach everything from base editing to RNA editing to everyone over age 10. They will learn how to link the creation of energy to biophysically constrained viral latency via the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction.

Is meat protein unhealthy? (2)

See also: Microbiome-Grade DNA Extraction Kits

…the thermal and chemical methods effectively lyse the gram-negative organisms and boost their population in the final profile, amplifying the bias.

This suggests that all links from food energy-dependent de novo creation of the pheromone-controlled biophysically constrained bull sperm microRNAome have been misinterpreted in the context of virus-driven fescue toxicosis.

The Bull Sperm MicroRNAome and the Effect of Fescue Toxicosis on Sperm MicroRNA Expression

…the miRNA profile of mature ejaculated sperm may in fact have downstream consequences upon embryonic development. The potential for sperm miRNA affecting zygote development has recently been reported in the literature [18] and has interesting implications for the use of sperm miRNA profiles as indicators of potential male fertility.

Fescue toxicosis links the virus-driven creation of enzymes to the degradation of messenger RNA in bull sperm and to the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of mutations, which all serious scientists have linked from damage to supercoiled DNA to all pathology in humans and other species.

Eating the meat from other animals that have not ecologically adapted to the virus-driven theft of quantized energy has been linked from the viruses in their genomes to human pathology via the degradation of messenger RNA in bacteria that become archaea and L-forms.

See also: Dobzhansky (1973)

…the so-called alpha chains of hemoglobin have identical sequences of amino acids in man and the chimpanzee, but they differ in a single amino acid (out of 141) in the gorilla.

See also: The Breadth of Viruses in Human Semen

The presence of viruses in semen is probably more widespread than currently appreciated, and the absence of virus in genital secretions should not be assumed for traditionally non–sexually transmitted viruses. The investigation of virus detection and persistence in semen across a range of viruses is useful for clinical and public health reasons, in particular for viruses that lead to high mortality or morbidity rates or to epidemics.

No serious scientist has ever reported a link from the Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor to the evolution of anything except pathology. All serious scientists have, for comparison, linked ecological variation to food energy-dependent  polycombic ecological adaptations via biophysically constrained viral latency in species from microbes to humans.

From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior (1996)

Yet another kind of epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes (Saunders, Chue, Goebl, Craig, Clark, Powers, Eissenberg, Elgin, Rothfield, and Earnshaw, 1993; Singh, Miller, Pearce, Kothary, Burton, Paro, James, and Gaunt, 1991; Trofatter, Long, Murrell, Stotler, Gusella, and Buckler, 1995). Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation…

See also: Cytosis: A Cell Biology Board Game for ages 10+

 A board game taking place inside a human cell! Players compete to build enzymes, hormones and receptors and fend off attacking Viruses!

5th-6th Sept 2018 Dublin, Ireland

Is meat protein unhealthy? (1)

Patterns of plant and animal protein intake are strongly associated with cardiovascular mortality
Reported as: Meat protein is unhealthy, but protein from nuts and seeds is heart smart

In the context of everything known about how the creation of anti-entropic virucidal light must be linked to all biodiversity on Earth, watch this ridiculous misrepresentation of the honeybee model organism. Food energy-dependent microRNA-mediated pheromone-controlled biophysically constrained viral latency is portrayed as if visual input was most important.

Bee swarms work like giant brains

See instead:

RNA-mediated nutritional psychiatry

RNA-mediated nutritional psychiatry (2)

Psychophysical Laws of Biology: RNA-mediated nutritional psychiatry (3)

Learn how to prevent more school shootings via what is known about how the “Psychophysical Laws” of Biology are linked to food energy-dependent biophysically constrained behaviors via microRNA-mediated cell type differentiation and the fixation of RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions like COMT Val158Met during the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Oppositional COMT Val158Met effects on resting state functional connectivity in adolescents and adults (Epub Oct 16 2014)

Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA

Pseudoscientists hate what science explains! (3)

See also: Pseudoscientists hate what science explains (2)
Summary: In addition to germline silencing via information transfer to the physical landscape of supercoiled DNA, multicopy transgene arrays are linked from changes in the microRNA/messenger RNA balance to variation in their somatic expression level. That fact helps to establish the difference between healthy longevity and pathology across generations.
Problems with DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes that may be inherited for several generations
My summary: The polycomb repressive complex 2, additional chromatin- and small RNA–related pathways carry quantized energy as information from the epigenetic landscape. The information causes changes in microRNAs that modify histones, which links the energy to the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of morphological and behavioral phentypes in the nematode model organism.
In addition to germline silencing via information transfer to the physical landscape of supercoiled DNA, multicopy transgene arrays are linked from changes in the microRNA/messenger RNA balance to variation in their somatic expression level. That fact helps to establish the difference between healthy longevity and pathology across generations.
The difference is food energy-dependent, RNA-mediated, and biophysically constrained by the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction in all living genera.
See for comparison: From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior (1996)

Yet another kind of epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes…. Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans… That similar proteins perform functions in humans suggests the possibility that some human sex differences may arise from alternative splicings of otherwise identical genes.

Parallel evolution of conserved non-coding elements that target a common set of developmental regulatory genes from worms to humans

We propose that CNEs [conserved non-coding elements] represent the ‘hard-wired’ sequence traces of these core animal group-specific GRNs [gene regulatory networks]. The alternative core GRNs of different animal lineages are reflected in their having alternative CNEs. However, because of their co-evolution from a common metazoan ancestor, the core GRNs of different animal groups often utilize the same regulatory genes. As a result, distinct yet parallel sets of CNEs have become irreversibly associated with the same genes that coordinate core developmental networks in diverse animal groups. Indeed, this evolution of regulatory elements may underlie the astounding diversification of animal body plans that was seen during the Cambrian period approximately 550 million years ago.

No experimental evidence suggests that regulatory elements evolved.
Predicting phenotypic variation in yeast from individual genome sequences
No experimental evidence predicts a link from gain of function mutations to evolution
Differential DNA mismatch repair underlies mutation rate variation across the human genome
All experimental evidence links natural selection for energy-dependent codon optimality to mutation rate variation across species and to individual differences in the human genome via the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction.

3D structures of individual mammalian genomes studied by single-cell Hi-C

Reported as: Scientists have determined the 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells, showing how the DNA from all the chromosomes intricately folds to fit together inside the cell nuclei. The research is published in Nature this week. http://go.nature.com/2n6psaw

My comments:

See also: 3D RNA and Functional Interactions from Evolutionary Couplings “…the ongoing explosion of available sequence data means that the outlook for elucidating functional interactions in mRNAs, lncRNAs, and viral genomes, as well as their protein-binding partners, is promising.” http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.030

Virus-driven energy theft causes the degradation of messenger RNA in all organized genomes. That fact threatens anyone who has ever reported results in the context of mutations, natural selection and evolution because natural selection occurs only for energy-dependent codon optimality.

It would be even more amazing if they told the truth about energy-dependent amino acid substitutions that stabilize supercoiled DNA, which links chromosomal rearrangement to all biodiversity via the physiology of reproduction in species from microbes to humans. See: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6328/910

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Addendum: Say goodbye to mutation-driven evolution. Everything known to serious scientists about biophysically constrained endogenous RNA interference and the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction has been linked from the de novo creation of nucleic acids to energy-dependent amino acid substitutions that differentiate all cell types in all living genera via fixation in organized genomes.
See: Transgenerational transmission of environmental information in C. elegans
They link diet- and stress-induced changes in heterochromatin from repressed repetitive elements that escape epigenetic reprogramming to phenotypic variation in mammals. It is obvious that heterochromatin provides the link from the molecular mechanisms of biophysically constrained protein folding chemistry to the epigenetic transmission of information between generations. But they speculate that the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of environmentally triggered changes in expression from repressed chromatin may be linked to ecological adaptations.
See for comparison: Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: a model

 …the model represented here is consistent with what is known about the epigenetic effects of ecologically important nutrients and pheromones on the adaptively evolved behavior of species from microbes to man. Minimally, this model can be compared to any other factual representations of epigenesis and epistasis for determination of the best scientific ‘fit’.

Ben Lehner and his co-authors have consistently tried to sneak up from behind and link explanations of energy-dependent top-down causation from mutations to evolution.
Others are also ignoring the experimental evidence that links energy-dependent changes in microRNAs to healthy longevity or from virus-driven energy theft to all stress-linked pathology.
See: Stress-induced changes in miRNA biogenesis and functioning
See for comparison: I am not a story

Reported as: Life is not a neat narrative, it’s a patchwork of competing, even contradictory, forces. Sensations are too spurious and memory too fickle for the formation of reliable storylines. Reject the impulse to narrativise. Summer Reads from the Aeon archive: http://ow.ly/bLd430ekoJn

Re: Sensations are too spurious and memory too fickle for the formation of reliable storylines.

My comment: Too late for more of this nonsense. See: Olfaction Warps Visual Time Perception

 

The sense of smell in bacteria has been linked from the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction to our visual perception of mass and energy in the context of the space-time continuum via food energy.

See for comparison: Quantum common sense

We don’t need a conscious mind to measure or look. With or without us, the Universe is always looking

My comment: No, it’s Santa Claus who sees you when your sleeping; He knows when you’re awake. And he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA

Energy-dependent epigenetic translation to mRNA stability (5)

Energy-dependent epigenetic translation to mRNA stability (4)
From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior

Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans….

See also: The Supraspliceosome – A Multi-Task Machine for Regulated Pre-mRNA Processing in the Cell Nucleus
Abstract conclusion:

…changes in these regulatory processing activities are associated with human disease and cancer. These findings emphasize the supraspliceosome as a multi-task master regulator of pre-mRNA processing in the cell nucleus.

Excerpt:

…the initiator-tRNA species proposed to participate in SOS reside in the cell nucleus, are found associated with supraspliceosomes (Table 2c), and appear not to be charged with an amino acid [87].

Energy-dependent regulation of the supraspliceosome and RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions is charge-regulated and the change in the charge must be linked to fixation of the amino acid substitution in the organized genomes of all living genera before energy can be linked to biologically-based cause and effect via what is known to all serious scientists about how the physiology of reproduction must be linked to biodiversity.
The changes in the supraspiceosome must then be linked from chromosomal rearrangements to morphological and behavioral diversity.
See also: New study helps solve a great mystery in the organization of our DNA, which is a report on this peer-reviewed published work: Targeted Degradation of CTCF Decouples Local Insulation of Chromosome Domains from Genomic Compartmentalization

Beyond defining the functions of CTCF in chromosome folding, these results provide new fundamental insights into the rules governing mammalian genome organization.

My summary: The rules integrate what is known about energy-dependent adenosine to inosine RNA editing. See: Divergent prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidine and 8-oxo-purine ribonucleotides
Prebiotic synthesis starts with the sun’s anti-entropic virucidal energy.
See: Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism
RNA biosynthesis is energy-dependent and an endogenous substrate appears to be the link from sunlight to protometabolism. By starting from protometabolism, it is easy to link the energy from the innate immune system to polycombic ecological adaptations in all living genera via the physiology of reproduction.
See also: Polycomb Regulates Mesoderm Cell Fate-Specification in Embryonic Stem Cells through Activation and Repression Mechanisms

little is known about the mechanistic underpinnings of how differently composed Polycomb complexes instruct and maintain cell fate. Here we find that Mel18, also known as Pcgf2 and one of six Pcgf paralogs, uniquely regulates PRC1 to specify mesoderm cell fate in embryonic stem cells. Mechanistically, Mel18 functions as a classical Polycomb protein during early cardiac mesoderm differentiation by repressing pluripotency, lineage specification, late cardiac differentiation, and negative regulators of the BMP pathway. However, Mel18 also positively regulates expression of key mesoderm transcription factors, revealing an unexpected function of Mel18 in gene activation during cardiac differentiation. Taken together, our findings reveal that Mel18 is required to specify PRC1 function in both a context- and stage-specific manner.

The context- and stage-specific links from polycombic ecological adaptation are nutrient energy-dependent and the regulation of polycombic ecological adaptations is biophysically constrained by the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction in all living genera.
See: Polycombic ecological adaptation as a science, not a theory
See also: Polycombic ecological adaptation as a science, not a theory (2)
See also: Search Results for “Polycombic ecological adaptation
For contrast, see: Is inference the best way to explain the origin of consciousness?

This conversation is connected to: Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference

My comments:

  1. Excerpt: “On this view, a loss of consciousness occurs whenever our models lose their ‘thickness’ and become as ‘thin’ as a virus’s.”

Consciousness is energy dependent and biophysically constrained by the ability of organisms to find food and reproduce. Consciousness is manifested as increasing organismal complexity in the context of links from quantum consciousness to quantum souls.

The fact that it took only one journalist to expose all the others who have not asked the right questions about consciousness so that the questions could be answered in the context of what is known to all serious scientists about virus-driven energy theft and all pathology is revealed here, and in the first interview from the week before.

Superbugs, Bacteriophages and Phage Therapy: An Interview with James Kohl

2. I just placed the essay on “Consciousness” into the context of “snake centric” evolution after scanning two published works by the author [Friston, Karl J.]

1) Top-Down Control of Visual Responses to Fear by the Amygdala http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/44/17435.abstract

2) Bayesian inferences about the self (and others): A review http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810014000105

See also: “Isbell calls these findings “the first neuroscientific support” for her snake-centric evolutionary theory.” excerpted from http://news.sciencemag.org/evolution/2013/10/did-snakes-help-build-primate-brain

For comparison see:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” — Richard Feynman

Feynman supported the efforts of those who laugh at ‘experts,’ especially when the experts are not among the serious scientists who were forced to link ecological variation to energy-dependent ecological adaptation in the context of what is now known about how to link food energy-dependent changes from angstroms to ecosystems in all living genera via feedback loops and the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction.

In “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out,” (see pages 124 and 125 for a summary) Richard Feynman presciently predicted that the ability to see interactions at the level of atomic energy would link quantized energy from sunlight to photosynthesis and pattern recognition by biologists, who would then link quantum physics from chemistry to the growth and movement of all organisms on Earth.
See also:

This comment was posted to my FB group on April 17, 2017
 

1) The findings reveal similarities and differences with a recently published report on the IP3R using a completely different method called cryo-electron microscopy.

2) The team identified an amino acid sequence in the leaflet that is conserved in parasites, suggesting structural insights that may assist in drug discovery for these devastating conditions.

By identifying the amino acid sequence, they inadvertently linked natural selection for energy-dependent codon optimality to all biodiversity via the biophysically constrained physiology of reproduction in the context of hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution.

See also Cryo-EM reveals a novel octameric integrase structure for betaretroviral intasome function as cited in:The Origin of Information: How to Solve It

Search Results for “hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs”

See also: Energy-dependent epigenetic translation to mRNA stability (5)
 

Filtering light through a prism to identify tissue type

Respiration-dependent endogenous RNA interference

If you are a theorist, please take a deep breath before beginning to read this.

The speed of light on contact with water has been linked from the level of oxygen on Earth to all biodiversity via the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction and the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of all morphological and behavioral phenotypes in all living genera.

15h15 hours ago  It’s “game over” for all theorists. There’s a new game in town. It’s an evolutionary theory killer.

12h12 hours ago Epigenetically-effected nucleosome repositioning sheds Dobzhansky’s light on evolution

Why are many mRNAs translated on or nearby mitochondria?

15h15 hours agoThanks for asking. Because otherwise one species could evolve into another species via natural selection for virus-driven energy theft.

35m35 minutes ago Replying to @jvkohl

how many times might a typical eukaryotic mRNA get translated? is it eventually degraded by RNAases? eroded from the ends?

Yes. Thanks for asking. Virus-driven energy theft degrades messenger RNA in the context of respiration and changes in pH in all cell types.

15m15 minutes ago The change to supercoiled DNA was energy-dependent. Where did the lost energy go? I need it back to support Schroedinger’s claims from 1944.

Re: Schodinger’s claims about sunlight: Practical application of the concept of energy as information sunlight.

Vitamin C is a natural antihistamine. It destroys the molecular structure of histamine, which decreases the amount of histamine in the blood. A diet that included the ingestion of leaves from the sago palm might have helped modern human populations in what is now Central China to ecologically adapt via energy-dependent changes in base pairs that link single nucleotide polymorphisms from natural selection for codon optimality to endogenous RNA interference and DNA repair via what is know about respiration in the context of the citric acid cycle.

See also: I forgot Wendy’s last name. She was a friend from Las Vegas, Nevada who died from lung cancer at an early age (38?).  We belonged to a public speaking group, which I was forced out of by my marriage in 1992, ~25 years ago.

The group was for single people only. Lung cancer has since caused the unnecessary suffering and premature death of many others because few people have learned that one energy-dependent base pair change can be linked from a single amino acid substitution to all RNA-mediated healthy longevity or from virus-driven energy theft to all pathology.

See for another example: Lkb1 inactivation drives lung cancer lineage switching governed by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2

The researchers linked sex differences in cell types to differences in the types of lung cancers. The differences were placed into the context of the nutrient energy-dependent metabolism of one amino acid, methionine. They suggest that methionine is essential to cell type differentiation in humans without placing that fact into the context of virus-driven energy theft, which links the degradation of messenger RNA from mutations to all pathology in all cell types of all living genera. It makes me very angry that they will not tell the truth about how energy-dependent endogenous RNA interference protects all organized genomes from virus-driven energy theft and genomic entropy. I’m beginning to wonder whether something more than ignorance is causing the misrepresentations of biologically-based cause and effect that are linked to the prevention and/or cure of cancer and all other pathology via nutritional epigenetics and the pheromone-controlled physiologoy of reproduction in all genera

.…one possibility is that metabolism of methionine is a link between LKB1 and EED. Studies with an inhibitor of S-adenosyl homocysteine hydrolase have demonstrated that decreased methionine metabolism can cause destabilization of the PRC2 components at the protein level61. Future studies will focus on identifying the link between the cellular genotype and the epigenetic identity of lung cancer cells from different subtypes of lung cancer…

Reported as: New study proves one lung cancer subtype can switch to another

“Now that we have a glimpse into the molecular mechanism of lineage switching, we can begin to learn how to manipulate this phenomenon for better therapeutic outcomes,” said Brainson.

My comment: In our 1996 Hormones and Behavior review we linked energy-dependent “lineage switching” to healthy longevity via alternative splicings of pre-mRNA and Polycomb.

Yet another kind of epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes (Saunders, Chue, Goebl, Craig, Clark, Powers, Eissenberg, Elgin, Rothfield, and Earnshaw, 1993; Singh, Miller, Pearce, Kothary, Burton, Paro, James, and Gaunt, 1991; Trofatter, Long, Murrell, Stotler, Gusella, and Buckler, 1995). Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans (Adler and Hajduk, 1994; de Bono, Zarkower, and Hodgkin, 1995; Ge, Zuo, and Manley, 1991; Green, 1991; Parkhurst and Meneely, 1994; Wilkins, 1995; Wolfner, 1988). That similar proteins perform functions in humans suggests the possibility that some human sex differences may arise from alternative splicings of otherwise identical genes.

See also: Thanks to everyone who helped fund the end of neo-Darwinian pseudoscientific nonsense and the end of the “Big Bang” theory. Viral latency is energy-dependent, RNA-mediated, and endogenous RNA interference is biophysically constrained by the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction.

The anti-entropic virucidal energy of the sun will be placed into its proper context by anyone who plays this game.

`6650 backers will receive the games and the number of biologically informed serious scientists will grow exponentially.
Anyone who plans to “March for Science” on Earth Day (April 22, 2017) is likely to be asked this embarrassing question. “Where did the energy in a hydrogen atom come from?”
Their answer will lead to a second question. “Where does the energy go when it no longer sustains the life of the organism?”
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Wikipedia refutes theistic evolution

RNA-Directed DNA Methylation

Besides RNA molecules, a plethora of proteins are involved in the establishment of RdDM, like Argonautes, DNA methyltransferases, chromatin remodelling complexes and the plant-specific Polymerase IV and Polymerase V. All these act in concert to add a methyl-group at the 5′ position of cytosines. In contrast to animals, cytosines at all sequence context (CG, CHG, CHH) may get de novo methylated in plants.

There is no such thing as de novo methylation. Methylation is energy-dependent. Virus-driven energy theft prevents methylation and links mutations to all pathology via everything known to young earth creationists, which some of them have been reporting since the late 1990’s. That fact explains why theorists were forced to change RNA-Directed DNA Methylation to RNA interference in a face-saving attempt. Many pseudoscientists have claimed the creationists cannot be scientists and their attacks on young earth creationists have been among the most vicious of all attacks. But now, the young earth creationists have this:

RNA interference (RNAi) RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression or translation, by neutralizing targeted mRNA molecules. Historically, it was known by other names, including co-suppression, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), and quelling. Only after these apparently unrelated processes were fully understood did it become clear that they all described the RNAi phenomenon.

The so-called unrelated processes linked to RNAi phenomenon were place into the context of what was known about molecular epigenetics in our section on molecular epigenetics from this 1996 Hormones and Behavior review.
From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior

Yet another kind of epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes (Saunders, Chue, Goebl, Craig, Clark, Powers, Eissenberg, Elgin, Rothfield, and Earnshaw, 1993; Singh, Miller, Pearce, Kothary, Burton, Paro, James, and Gaunt, 1991; Trofatter, Long, Murrell, Stotler, Gusella, and Buckler, 1995). Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans (Adler and Hajduk, 1994; de Bono, Zarkower, and Hodgkin, 1995; Ge, Zuo, and Manley, 1991; Green, 1991; Parkhurst and Meneely, 1994; Wilkins, 1995; Wolfner, 1988). That similar proteins perform functions in humans suggests the possibility that some human sex differences may arise from alternative splicings of otherwise identical genes.

The alternative splicings are energy-dependent.
See also: Contribution of epigenetic mechanisms to variation in cancer risk among tissues

Because de novo modification appears to take place almost exclusively on CpG islands that are already silenced by polycomb in the normal tissue (8), we suggest that this modification works by preventing these genes from becoming activated, thereby inhibiting normal tissue differentiation, causing clonal selection for cells that may predispose to cancer (31). Indeed, many of these methylation targets have been shown to be “driver” genes in a number of different cell types (Fig. S6).

Virus-driven energy theft prevents what they claim are the de novo modifications and the energy theft links contraint-breaking mutations from viral latency to all pathology. Only biologically uninformed pseudoscientists have continued to portray energy-dependent changes in methylation as if the changes occurred in the context of de novo modification.
See for comparison. These creationists start with energy and link it to experience-dependent cell type differentiation via what is known about sensing and signalling in all living genera.
Multipurpose plant sensors startle scientists

Evolutionary scientists did not predict such elaborate sensory integration in a single protein system.

Sensing and signalling in all living genera is links the physiology of reproduction in soil bacteria to the phyisology of pheromone-controlled reproduction in all livng genera. See for example:
The genome of Chenopodium quinoa

The TSARL1 transcript was alternatively spliced in the sweet progeny of Kurmi and 0654. A SNP in the last position of exon 3 (G2078C) co-segregates with the presence of saponins in the Kurmi × 0654 progeny. The G2078C SNP alters the canonical intron/exon splice boundary (Fig. 4e), probably leading to the alternative splicing at an upstream cryptic splice site in the sweet lines (Fig. 4e). This alternative splicing of TSARL1 results in a premature stop codon…

See also: Start codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought

Start codons are important to understand because they mark the beginning of a recipe for translating RNA into specific strings of amino acids (i.e., proteins).

See also: Codon optimality controls differential mRNA translation during amino acid starvation (2016)
They help to make the fact clear that all organisms must eat.
See also:Codon identity regulates mRNA stability and translation efficiency during the maternal-to-zygotic transition (2016)
They make it clear that the bias between codons or amino acids, and mRNA expression is the link from natural selection for energy as information that links the selection of food to efficient, accurate translation, and folding of  expressed genes.  Simply put, the energy-dependent amino acid optimality code  differentiates between theories of evolution and facts about how ecological variation must be linked to ecological adaptation via the physiology of pheromone-controlled energy-dependent reproduction and supercoiled DNA in all living genera.
Obviously, pseudoscientists who cannot link energy-dependent changes in codon optimality have indirectly been responsible for all virus-driven pathology because they failed to link the viral hecatomb from archaea to the transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of Zika virus-damaged DNA or to all other pathology, including cancer and degenerative diseases.
Thank God, Bill Gates and President Trump are among the billionaires who have decided to help others who have been combating evolutionary theorists to fight disease for several decades.
See also: Combating Evolution to Fight Disease

diseases-disorders

RNA editing refutes theistic evolution

Charge-altering releasable transporters (CARTs) for the delivery and release of mRNA in living animals January 9, 2017
Reported February 19, 2017 as A new way Forward for Gene Therapy

If you want an explanation of how mRNA works within a cell, check out the video above from the Khan Academy.

Unfortunately, the speaker seems to think that sickle-cell disease is caused by a mutation. All serious scientists know that the hemoglobin S variant is a biophysically constrained nutrient energy-dependent ecological adaptation that protects populations from virus-driven genomic entropy due to phages in the class of Sporazoa, which includes the parasite that causes malaria.
See also: HbVar: A Database of Human Hemoglobin Variants and Thalassemias
More than 1200 hemoglobin variants have been reported.
Here is more information on the known variants Dobzhansky (1964) reported that  “Ingram and others found that hemoglobin S differs from A in the substitution of just a single amino acid, valine in place of glutamic acid in the beta chain of the hemoglobin molecule.”
If you want details about how energy-dependent changes in the microRNA/messenger balance link amino acid substitutions in supercoiled DNA to all healthy longevity compared to the fact that virus-driven energy theft is linked from mutations to all pathology, see:
Energy as information and constrained endogenous RNA interference

Feedback loops link quantized energy as information to biophysically constrained RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry. Light induced energy-dependent changes link angstroms to ecosystems from classical physics to chemistry/chirality and to molecular epigenetics/autophagy.

The National Microbiome Initiative links microbial quorum sensing to the physiology of reproduction via endogenous RNA interference and chromosomal rearrangements. The rearrangements link energy-dependent fixed amino acid substitutions to the Precision Medicine Initiative via genome wide inferences of natural selection.

This detailed representation of energy-dependent natural selection for codon optimality links biologically- based cause and effect from G protein-coupled receptors to RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions and the functional structure of supercoiled DNA. Energy-dependent polycombic ecological adaptations are manifested in supercoiled DNA. Chromosomal inheritance links the adaptations from morphological phenotypes to healthy longevity via behavioral phenotypes.

For contrast, virus-driven energy theft is the link from messenger RNA degradation to negative supercoiling, constraint breaking mutations, and hecatombic evolution. The viral hecatomb links transgenerational epigenetic inheritance from archaea to Zika virus-damaged DNA, which typically is repaired by endogenous RNA interference and fixation of RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions in organized genomes

See also: Top-down causation: an integrating theme within and across the sciences?

The papers by Jaeger (microbiology) and Noble (physiology) are strong steps forward in this regard. This is perhaps the area where most needs to be done, across the board in all domains. Areas where striking progress is being made in this regard are epigenetics [22] and social neuroscience [23]. These papers are in fact dealing with top-down causation: the way they provide experimental confirmation of this concept needs to be made more explicit.

What don’t pseudoscientists understand about the need to link energy-dependent RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry from metabolism in microbes to their nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled physiology of energy-dependent reproduction before inventing more theories based on definitions and assumptions about interpretations of data?
Each example of RNA editing will continue to link chirality to autophagy and link endogenous RNA interference (RNA editing) to supercoiled DNA via amino acids in supercoiled DNA. If example of virus-driven energy theft are not sufficient to show that it is the cause of all pathology, someone will need to show what causes the mutations that are linked to all pathology.
See also: Genomic Energy Landscapes
Their perspective on the energy landscape theory asks the same old questions about chromosomal inheritance and provides no basis for linking experimental evidence of top-down energy-dependent causation from RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry to all biodiversity via the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction. It is another refutation of theistic evolution because it fails to link anything to anything else.
See for comparison: Coevolutionary information, protein folding landscapes, and the thermodynamics of natural selection (2014)

Comparing the details of the physical and information theoretic models has already suggested ways of improving the prediction of mutational effects on the stability of protein sequence/structure pairs.

Virus-driven energy theft causes mutations, which link messenger RNA degradation to genomic entropy in hosts because the energy is used for amino acid substitutions that stabilize the organized genomes of viruses. How much evidence of virus-driven energy theft and pathology can be viewed in the context of the fossil record compared to the frozen corpse of “the Tyrolean Iceman?”
See: miRNAs in ancient tissue specimens of the Tyrolean Iceman reported as: Otzi the Iceman: Researchers validate the stability of genetic markers

…microRNAs can remain stable even after 5,300 years.

From the same first author: The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire
The variability of single odorant receptors is clearly linked from energy-dependent changes in base pairs to the microRNA/messenger RNA balance. The balance links SNPs to natural selection for energy-dependent codon optimality.
Codon optimality links single amino acid substitutions from RNA editing to nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled adaptations. That fact links natural selection from ecological variations to ecological adaptations. The energy-dependent adaptations obviously occur in species from microbes (including viruses) to man. If the adaptations did not occur in all living genera, the microRNAs could not have been linked to genetic markers in the ancient tissue specimens via RNA editing.
See also: Contribution of epigenetic mechanisms to variation in cancer risk among tissues

…the risk of cancer in any given tissue would be correlated with the number of abnormally methylated precancer cells in that cell type. Because de novo modification appears to take place almost exclusively on CpG islands that are already silenced by polycomb in the normal tissue (8), we suggest that this modification works by preventing these genes from becoming activated, thereby inhibiting normal tissue differentiation, causing clonal selection for cells that may predispose to cancer (31). Indeed, many of these methylation targets have been shown to be “driver” genes in a number of different cell types (Fig. S6).

Once again we see that serious scientists know the difference between energy-dependent polycombic ecological adaptations and the virus-driven hecatombic evolution of all pathology, but they clearly do not know how to express what they know in terms that are meaningful to those who know how to link angstroms to ecosystems in all living genera.
 

Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA

Energy-dependent chirality

See also: Achiral glycine
Summary: Virus-driven energy theft alters the interactions between physics and chemistry that maintain biophysically constrained biodiversity. That’s how viruses are linked from mutations to all pathology. Nutrient energy-dependent changes in the context of the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction biophysically constrain biodiversity via the fixation of amino acid substitutions in supercoiled DNA, which protects organized genomes from virus-driven pathology.
Chirality (chemistry)

Two enantiomers of a generic amino acid that is chiral
The chirality of amino acids is energy-dependent and biophysically constrained by the physiology of reproduction in all living genera. For example, the substitution of achiral glycine in position 6 of the decapeptide gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) stabilizes the organized genomes of all vertebrates by helping to protect them from virus-driven energy theft.

(S)-Alanine (left) and (R)-alanine (right) in zwitterionic form at neutral pH

See also:The acid-base behavior of amino acids

There is an internal transfer of a hydrogen ion from the -COOH group to the -NH2 group to leave an ion with both a negative charge and a positive charge.

Energy as information is placed into the context of the sun’s anti-entropic virucidal link from hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solutions. For example, as water in the ocean can be linked to all biodiversity via the physiology of reproduction and fixation of RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions in the supercoiled DNA of all living genera.

Any nutrient energy-dependent change in pH can be linked from hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to healthy longevity. All virus-driven energy theft can be linked from changes in pH and hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to pathology.
The difference between healthy longevity and pathology is viral latency. Unless the virus-driven energy theft is biophysically constrained by the anti-entropic virucidal force of the sun’s energy, life on Earth is not possible.
See also: A single ion impacts a million water molecules
That fact helps to explain what is intuitively obvious to all serious scientists. They understand how the energy-dependent difference between bacteria and archaea links the degeneration of messenger RNA from bacteria to the degenerate mophological and behavioral phenotypes of archaea.
See: Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor
For comparison, see: From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior

… epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes (Saunders, Chue, Goebl, Craig, Clark, Powers, Eissenberg, Elgin, Rothfield, and Earnshaw, 1993; Singh, Miller, Pearce, Kothary, Burton, Paro, James, and Gaunt, 1991; Trofatter, Long, Murrell, Stotler, Gusella, and Buckler, 1995). Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans (Adler and Hajduk, 1994; de Bono, Zarkower, and Hodgkin, 1995; Ge, Zuo, and Manley, 1991; Green, 1991; Parkhurst and Meneely, 1994; Wilkins, 1995; Wolfner, 1988). That similar proteins perform functions in humans suggests the possibility that some human sex differences may arise from alternative splicings of otherwise identical genes.

All differentiation in all cell types of all living genera exemplifies nutrient energy-dependent pheromone-controlled RNA-mediated polycombic ecological adaptation. That fact can be compared to the fact that virus-driven energy theft exemplifies the hecatombic evolution of all pathology. Both facts can be placed into the context of everything known about energy-dependent alternative splicings and amino acid substitutions in supercoiled DNA.
For comparison, see this representation of how “minimal mutational distance” might still be used by biologically uninformed theorists who do not know the difference between a mutation and an amino acid substitution:
Construction of Phylogenetic Trees

Determining the Mutation Distance The mutation distance between two cytochromes is defined here as the minimal number of nucleotides that would need to be altered in order for the gene for one cytochrome to code for the other. This distance is determined by a computer making a pair-wise comparison of homologous amino acids (8).

The choice is perfectly clear. You can accept the claims of theorists who use computers to make “…a pair-wise comparison of homologous amino acids,” or accept the claims of serious scientists who have linked energy-dependent changes in hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to supercoiled DNA, which typically protects all living genera from virus-driven energy theft and all pathology.
See also: Multipurpose Plant Sensors Startle Scientists
See also: J. B. S. Haldane [“When I am dead,” in Possible Worlds: And Other Essays [1927], Chatto and Windus: London, 1932, reprint, p.209.
This discussion attempt failed to convince anyone that Haldane, who was one of the theorists who helped to invent neo-Darwinism, was like all the others who knew nothing about biophysically constrained energy-dependent cell type differentiation.

Peter Berean who invented the term “bio-functional information” concluded:

What is your chain of logic (in your own words) that leads to your belief that energy = information?

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DEFINITION

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in·for·ma·tion
1. facts provided or learned about something or someone.
“a vital piece of information”
synonyms: details, particulars, facts, figures, statistics, data; More
2.
what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.
“genetically transmitted information”

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en·er·gy

1.
the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
“changes in the levels of vitamins can affect energy and well-being”
synonyms: vitality, vigor, life, liveliness, animation, vivacity, spirit, spiritedness, verve, enthusiasm, zest, vibrancy, spark, sparkle, effervescence, ebullience, exuberance, buoyancy, sprightliness; More
2.
power derived from the utilization of physical or chemical resources, especially to provide light and heat or to work machines.
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Conclusion: Energy and Information are two completely different things. They are NOT the same thing.

Claims that energy is not information, which are based on definitions, continue to frustrate the effort of intelligent scientists who are combating evolution to fight disease.
The casualties on the side of the serious scientists can be attributed to theorists and journalists who write articles with conclusions like this.
See: The queen does not rule

Division of labour is a human innovation, drawing on our ability to learn and improve by practice, and to trade goods and services. The growing recognition that natural processes work differently from our symphonies and armies will allow us to see the natural world more clearly. Ant colonies are not factories or fortresses; instead they use simple interactions to adjust to changing conditions. Ant societies, organised by distributed algorithms rather than division of labour, have thrived for more than 130 million years.

Division of labor is nutrient energy-dependent and pheromone-controlled via the physiology of reproduction in all living genera. For example XIST links differences in energy-dependent RNA-directed DNA methylation to chromosomal rearrangements and sex differences in species from yeasts to humans via the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction.
See: Chemical tags on RNA silence female X chromosome

“We found that methyl modification is a normal feature of most RNAs in the cell,” he said. “This includes messenger RNAs that encode proteins, as well as noncoding RNAs such as XIST.”

Others have shown that energy-dependent changes in the microRNA/messenger RNA balance link methylation to every aspect of healthy longevity and that they link virus-driven energy theft to all pathology via the conserved molecular mechanisms of cell type differentiation in all living genera.
See: microRNA
For one of 56,700 other examples see: MicroRNA-29 impairs the early phase of reprogramming process by targeting active DNA demethylation enzymes and Wnt signaling
See also: The real problem

…fundamental aspects of our experiences of conscious selfhood might depend on control-oriented predictive perception of our messy physiology, of our animal blood and guts. We are conscious selves because we too are beast machines – self-sustaining flesh-bags that care about their own persistence.

We are not self-sustaining. The real problem is the ignorance of theorists who have failed to tether their ridiculous theories to facts about Darwin’s “conditions of life” that have been detailed by serious scientists.
For example, see: Feedback loops link odor and pheromone signaling with reproduction
See also: Involvement of Host Non-Coding RNAs in the Pathogenesis of the Influenza Virus
See for comparison: My comment to the Science site and to the Atlantic site:

The idea of biophysical constraints seems antithetical to the idea of nature somehow selecting mutations that cause amino acid substitutions. However, I am not a biophysicist or evolutionary theorist.

The problem may be my focus on nutrient-dependent receptor-mediated amino acid substitutions in species from bacteria to humans (non-viral organisms). Since I am not a virologist or physicist, I’m not sure that the laws of physics apply to viruses and their replication.

If they do, natural selection for random mutations is not likely to result in amino acid substitutions because the thermodynamics of changes in organism-level thermoregulation preclude such randomness. Stability of protein biosynthesis and degradation that probably depends on protein folding must somehow be controlled. Besides, I don’t know how random mutations in viruses could be naturally selected for inclusion in the human virome (or in the virome of any organism capable of thermoregulating its thermodynamic intercellular signaling).

If the Second Law of Thermodynamics does not apply to viruses, which means the chemical bonds that enable the amino acid substitutions can form at random and somehow be naturally selected, the details of biophysical constraints in this article seems out of place, since I do not think in terms of constrained random mutations and natural selection in mutation-driven evolution.

Hopefully, someone with a background in biophysics will address my confusion in case others are confused. In addition, I wonder if the consequences of understanding the evolutionary mechanisms that govern viruses extend to consequences important to understanding the evolution of species from bacteria to humans via constrained random mutations and natural selection?

My comment was removed from the Science site and this appeared:

The major antigenic changes of the influenza virus are primarily caused by a single amino acid near the receptor binding site.

My comment is still available from the Atlantic site
See also: Virus-driven mutation or amino acid substitution
See also: Energy-dependent chirality (2)

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Base pairs, amino acids and phenotypes

Holliday junction trap shows how cells use recombination and a junction-guardian role of RecQ helicase

DNA repair by homologous recombination (HR) underpins cell survival and fuels genome instability, cancer, and evolution.

Autophagy is the established link from energy-dependent changes in base pairs and RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions to DNA repair in the context of polycombic ecological adaptations that prevent the hecatombic evolution of virus-driven pathology. Inventing new detailed models of DNA repair serves only to confuse those who have already linked energy-dependent changes from angstroms to ecosystems via the physiology of reproduction, which links the innate immune system to supercoiled DNA and all biodiversity in all living genera.
See for comparison. This is another confusing attempt to link energy-dependent autophagy via the physiology of pheromone-controlled reproduction from changes is base pairs to RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions, which differentiate all cell types in all living genera in the context of polycombic ecological adaptations.
Very few published works use the term RNA regulons for comparison to energy-dependent changes in microRNAs in the context of hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution. The changes in base pairs must be linked to the post-transcriptional events via biophysically constrained RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry, which links metabolic networks to genetic networks in all living genera.
RNA regulons: coordination of post-transcriptional events (2007)

Here I describe several recently discovered examples of RNA operons in budding yeast, fruitfly and mammalian cells, and their potential importance in processes such as immune response, oxidative metabolism, stress response, circadian rhythms and disease. I close by considering the evolutionary wiring and rewiring of these combinatorial post-transcriptional gene-expression networks.

The claims about RNA regulons in the context of the innate immune system and claims about a model of biologically-based cause and effect were included in this model.
See: Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: a model. My model is a refutation of the neo-Darwinian nonsense about beneficial mutations, natural selection and evolution. Natural selection for energy-dependent codon optimaility links the pheromone-controlled physiology of nutrient-dependent reproduction to all biodiversity in all living genera via polycombic ecological adaptations.
The refutation of neo-Darwinian nonsense is supported by experimental evidence from many different published works that link energy-dependent changes in base pairs to fixation of RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions in organized genomes. The ~55,000 indexed published works on nutrient energy-dependent microRNAs and virus-driven energy theft can now be place into these claims about the hecatombic evolution of all virus-driven pathology
See:Freeze-frame’ proteins show how cancer evolves: Researchers capture elusive clues about cells’ path to cancer.

“The intermediate molecules are the most important parts of biochemical reactions,” said Rosenberg… “They define what the reaction is and how it will proceed. But because they are transient and elusive, it’s really difficult to study them, especially in living cells.

The “intermediate molecules” are energy-dependent microRNAs. They link hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to all cell type differentiation in all genera via microRNA flanking sequences.
See: The phylogenetic utility and functional constraint of microRNA flanking sequences

Both miRNAs and their flanking sequences provide phylogenetic signals suitable for the inference of phylogeny with high levels of accuracy, when sufficient numbers of this type are concatenated. As detailed here, the clear identity and easy alignment of these sequences makes them good candidates for estimating phylogeny, and they can reliably be found and identified across all members of a clade of interest. Their relatively slow evolution [3] also means that they can easily be identified in de novo assemblies of genomes.

There is no such thing as the de novo assemblies of genomes or relatively fast or slow evolution. Cell type differentiation is energy-dependent and biophysically constrained. Energy-dependent changes in the microRNA/messenger RNA balance are required to link the epigenetic landscape to the physical landscape of supercoiled DNA.
Everything known about energy-dependent biophysically constrained RNA-mediated protein folding chemistry was placed into the context of Combating Evolution to Fight Disease.  Simply put, the innate immune system defends all cell types against the virus-driven evolution of cancer and all other pathology.

As predicted in “The Darwin Code,” That fact has forced A radical revision of human genetics

“…geneticists don’t have an accurate understanding of how mutations behave in people who are not obviously sick. “This is a fascinating flashpoint in the field right now,” says Robert Green, a geneticist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. “Many people are deeply concerned that widespread screening of ostensibly healthy people could actually lead to harm.”

The harm comes from not knowing how nutrient energy-dependent RNA-mediated cell type differentiation occurs. The availabiity of nutrients varied in the ancestors of people from Asian, African, Latino and other non-European ancestries. That is why…

…failing to include people from Asian, African, Latino and other non-European ancestries is holding back understanding of how genes influence disease by limiting the view of human genetic diversity.

Natural selection of food for energy-dependent codon optimality links base pairs and amino acid substitutions to sex specific cell type differences and all other RNA-mediated cell type differences.

See for example: Gender-Specific Association of Galanin Polymorphisms with HPA-Axis Dysregulation, Symptom Severity, and Antidepressant Treatment Response (2010)

Human galanin (GAL) is a 30 amino-acid neuropeptide, proteolytically processed from preprogalanin (PPGAL) (Evans and Shine, 1991; Schmidt et al, 1991). PPGAL is a single-copy gene located on chromosome 11q13.3–13.5, spanning over 6 kb of genomic DNA and organized into six exons (Rokaeus and Brownstein, 1986; Vrontakis et al, 1987).

Single-nucleotide polymorphism rs948854 in human galanin gene and multiple sclerosis: a gender-specific risk factor (2017)

Although it remains to be demonstrated whether A-to-G substitution in rs948854 leads to an increased or decreased transcriptional activity of the GAL gene, functional studies suggest a decrease of galanin level in the minor G allele carriers. It has been shown that reduction in galanin level leads to or exacerbates neurodegeneration, whereas an increased galanin level has neuroprotective effects (Hobson et al., 2008; Elliott-Hunt et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2013). Furthermore, galanin may exhibit anti-inflammatory effects, possibly via inhibition of excitatory neurotransmitter release and/or regulation of cytokine production by activated microglia (Hokfelt et al., 1987; Su et al., 2003; Elliott-Hunt et al., 2004). The associations between rs948854 variants and MS demonstrated in the current study support our hypothesis that polymorphism in the promoter region that are likely to change expression level of the GAL gene affect the cause and the outcome of MS, shifting the balance in favor of either neuroprotection or neurodegeneration.

Modeling Recent Human Evolution in Mice by Expression of a Selected EDAR Variant (2013)

Alternatively, it could be precisely the pleiotropic nature of 370A that allowed multiple distinct selective forces to act on this variant over its long history, when many of the postulated selective pressures such as temperature and humidity changed dramatically. The fact that EDAR acts mostly on ectodermal appendages and that the phenotypic effects of the 370A allele are not extreme reduces the costs of pleiotropy and would facilitate this process. Thus, what were initially neutral changes in some appendages driven by 370A would gain adaptive significance in the face of new selective pressures. It is worth noting that largely invisible structural changes resulting from the 370A allele that might confer functional advantage, such as increased eccrine gland number, are directly linked to visually obvious traits such as hair phenotypes and breast size. This creates conditions in which biases in mate preference could rapidly evolve and reinforce more direct competitive advantages. Consequently, the cumulative selective force acting over time on diverse traits caused by a single pleiotropic mutation could have driven the rise and spread of 370A.

My comment: 370 A exemplifies an energy-dependent change in rs3827760, which is also known as 1540T/C, 370A or Val370Ala. It is a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) linked from a base pair change to an amino acid substitution in the ectodysplasin A receptor EDAR gene on chromosome 2.
A genome-wide analysis of putative functional and exonic variation associated with extremely high intelligence (2015)

One SNP rs4713668 (P=4.62 × 10−4) identified in our study, was in LD (r2=0.65) with rs3227, which is one of the three variants recently reported with genome-wide significant evidence of association with educational attainment.46

A genetic basis of variation in eccrine sweat gland and hair follicle density (2015)
rs3827760 appears to have become En1 [Engrailed-1), and modulation of En1 levels became a driver of natural differences in eccrine gland and hair follicle density between mouse strains. Previously, those differences were linked to a single energy-dependent base pair change and one amino acid substitution.

This finding not only provides insight into a distinct molecular program that promotes increased eccrine gland density, but also reveals that this effect on eccrine development occurs at the expense of hair follicles in a tissue where the two appendage types are naturally interspersed.

The link to behavior via visually obvious traits such as hair phenotypes and breast size is missing. That means there is no link to sex differences and biases in mate preference via rs948854. That means everything known to serious scientists about biophysically constrained RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions and cell type differentiation in all individuals in all living genera may continue to be ignored.
See for instance: Nutrient-dependent/pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution: a model

Two additional recent reports link substitution of the amino acid alanine for the amino acid valine (Grossman et al., 2013) to nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution. The alanine substitution for valine does not appear to be under any selection pressure in mice. The cause-and-effect relationship was established in mice by comparing the effects of the alanine, which is under selection pressure in humans, via its substitution for valine in mice (Kamberov et al., 2013).

These two reports (Grossman et al., 2013; Kamberov et al., 2013) tell a new short story of adaptive evolution. The story begins with what was probably a nutrient-dependent variant allele that arose in central China approximately 30,000 years ago. The effect of the allele is adaptive and it is manifested in the context of an effect on sweat, skin, hair, and teeth. In other mammals, like the mouse, the effect on sweat, skin, hair, and teeth is due to an epigenetic effect of nutrients on hormones responsible for the tweaking of immense gene networks that metabolize nutrients to pheromones. The pheromones control the nutrient-dependent hormone-dependent organization and activation of reproductive sexual behavior in mammals such as mice and humans, but also in invertebrates as previously indicated. That means the adaptive evolution of the human population, which is detailed in these two reports, is also likely to be nutrient-dependent and pheromone-controlled, since there is no other model for that.

The fact that there is no other model of energy-dependent biophysically constrained cell type differentiation that also links virus-driven energy theft to all pathology has not escaped the attention of those who might wish they had a model. Because they don’t, all they can do is claim that no model refutes their ridiculous theories about evolution.

For a failed discussion attempt of everything known to serious scientists about energy-dependent base pair changes, RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions and cell type differentiation, see Creationism May 22, 2016

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This open access article may be too technical for most people to discuss, but Creationism is difficult to discuss outside the context of energy-dependent creation compared to energy theft and pathology.

A genome-wide association scan implicates DCHS2, RUNX2, GLI3, PAX1 and EDAR in human facial variation

My summary of the excerpt: They linked an energy-dependent changes in rs3827760 from the base pair to the same amino acid substitution, which had already been linked to cell type differentiation across populations of modern humans. Fixation of the energy-dependent base pair change in the amino acid substitution that differentiates the morphological and behavioral phenotypes of modern humans links supercoiled DNA to protection from virus-driven energy theft and genomic entropy in species from archaea to all primates.
In the same study they linked virus-driven energy theft to loss of function mutations and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of healthy longevity for comparison to mutation-driven pathology via the mouse model. The mouse to human model was already used to link the EDAR variant to similar morphological differences in humans. The morphological differences appear to link the Zika virus pathology to craniofacial changes and differences in brain development via what is known about the bull sperm microRNAome and presence of microRNAs in human breast milk that protect infants from virus-driven energy theft during the first few years of development.
Excerpt:

The derived G allele at the index SNP in this region (rs3827760) encodes a functional substitution in the intracellular death domain of EDAR (370A) and is associated with reduced chin protrusion (Table 2). EDAR is part of the EDA signalling pathway (comprising EDA, EDAR and EDARADD (the EDAR-binding death domain adaptor protein)) which specifies prenatally the location, size and shape of ectodermal appendages (such as hair follicles, teeth and glands)23. The death domain has been shown to be involved in the interaction of EDAR with EDARADD, the 370A form having higher activity than the ancestral variant24. The G allele at rs3827760 is not present in Europeans and Africans but is seen at high frequency in East Asians and is essentially fixed in Native Americans (Table 3). This SNP has been associated in East Asians with characteristic tooth morphologies, hair type and sweat gland density25, 26, 27. Recently, we showed, in the same study sample examined here, that rs3827760 impacts on aspects of pinna morphology, including: lobe size and attachment, ear protrusion and helix rolling12. Mutations in the EDA pathway cause hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia28. This disorder is characterized by a reduced number of sweat glands, oligodontia, decrease in the amount of hair and facial dysmorphia, including a markedly protrusive chin29.”

Energy-dependent base pair changes are the only known link from RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions to cell type differentiation via supercoiled DNA and protection from virus-driven energy theft. The energy-dependent base pair changes prevent the entropy of organized genomes.
The focus of my 2013 model was on the RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions that differentiate all cell types in all individuals of all living genera. The focus of theorists has been to obfuscate what is known about the links from energy-dependent base pair changes to RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions and cell type differentiation, which is the only way to explain biologically-based cause and effect. It also explains why some species survived and others became extinct during the past ~6000 years.
See for example:
Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants
Genome divergence and diversification within a geographic mosaic of coevolution
Difference in Plumage Color Used in Species Recognition between Incipient Species Is Linked to a Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Melanocortin-1 Receptor
Substitutions Near the Receptor Binding Site Determine Major Antigenic Change During Influenza Virus Evolution
Identification of amino acid substitutions supporting antigenic change of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses.
The fact that all divergence and diversification in all living genera must be energy-dependent and the fact that virus-driven energy theft causes all pathology must be ignored by those whose financial support for their research comes from the evolution industry or the big bang cosmology industry. We cannot expect much scientific progress until the financial constraints are broken and the biophysical constraints on energy-dependent RNA-mediated cell type differentiation are addressed at every level from angstroms top ecosystems after starting from quantized energy-dependent changes in base pairs.
See for comparison: Lineage-Specific Genome Architecture Links Enhancers and Non-coding Disease Variants to Target Gene Promoters
Re: “…the interactomes of 31,253 annotated promoters in 17 human primary blood cell types.”
Excerpt:

Here, we link thousands of GWAS SNPs to their putative target genes and prioritize more than 2,500 potential disease-associated genes, three-quarters of which were not previously implicated.

Reported as: Researchers identify missing links that connect human DNA variation with disease
All “missing links” are nutrient energy-dependent and biophysically constrained by the physiology of reproduction. They link RNA-mediated amino acid substitutions to cell type differentiation in all cell types of all living genera via the innate immune system and supercoiled DNA. Mathematical models are useless in that context. They are based on inferences and assumptions.
It’s time to finish this blog post. I linked energy-dependent changes in SNPs from amino acid substitutions to cell type differentiation via a model of biologically-based cause and effect, and the “science” news is still reporting biologically-based cause and effect in the context of their pseudoscientific nonsense about mathematical models of inferences and assumptions.

Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA

Epigenetics and autophagy vs mutations and evolution (2)

Plants send light to roots to ‘see’ underground
My comment: Sending light requires an energy-dependent link from hydrogen-atom transfer in DNA base pairs in solution to supercoiled DNA, which protects all organanized genomes from virus-driven energy theft and genomic entropy.
See Schrodinger (1944)
Excerpt:

Indeed, in the case of higher animals we know the kind of orderliness they feed upon well enough, viz. the extremely well-ordered state of matter in more or less complicated organic compounds, which serve them as foodstuffs. After utilizing it they return it in a very much degraded form -not entirely degraded, however, for plants can still make use of it. (These, of course, have their most power supply of ‘negative entropy’ the sunlight.)” (pp. 73 and 74)

Ongoing confirmations of facts have escaped the attention of most theorists.

My comment:  The physics of life is the same as the physics that underlies inorganic chemistry. There is no such thing as chemoautotrophic or chemoheterotrophic metabolism. Metabolism is energy-dependent. Chemosynthesis and symbiogenesis are energy-dependent and controlled by the physiology of reproduction, not by the magic of evolution.
How can anyone not understand the link from information transfer in the context of physics or not link quantized energy from chemistry to RNA-mediated cell type differentiation in species from microbes to humans via the physiology of reproduction.
If the anti-entropic virucidal effects of UV light did not cause RNA-mediated DNA repair in soil bacteria, plants could not grow. Instead, sunlight is the link from the nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction in soil bacteria to all biodiversity via the conserved molecular mechanisms of epigenetics that we first detailed in our 1996 review.
See: From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior
Excerpt:

Yet another kind of epigenetic imprinting occurs in species as diverse as yeast, Drosophila, mice, and humans and is based upon small DNA-binding proteins called “chromo domain” proteins, e.g., polycomb. These proteins affect chromatin structure, often in telomeric regions, and thereby affect transcription and silencing of various genes (Saunders, Chue, Goebl, Craig, Clark, Powers, Eissenberg, Elgin, Rothfield, and Earnshaw, 1993; Singh, Miller, Pearce, Kothary, Burton, Paro, James, and Gaunt, 1991; Trofatter, Long, Murrell, Stotler, Gusella, and Buckler, 1995). Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute to sexual differentiation in at least two species, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans (Adler and Hajduk, 1994; de Bono, Zarkower, and Hodgkin, 1995; Ge, Zuo, and Manley, 1991; Green, 1991; Parkhurst and Meneely, 1994; Wilkins, 1995; Wolfner, 1988). That similar proteins perform functions in humans suggests the possibility that some human sex differences may arise from alternative splicings of otherwise identical genes.