• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Yes, lots, but it doesn’t correspond with the social construct of race, ie. A given “black” person could be substantially more genetically similar to a given “white” person than they are to another person who would be considered a “black person.” The genotypal groupings of human populations does not comfortably correspond to phenotypal/cultural groupings of human populations.

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      3 days ago

      ooh, i think genotypal might be what i was thinking of.

      Where phenotypal is a mixture of environmental and genetic expression , genotypal would be exclusively the part derived from genetics.

      Would genotypal typically include epigenetics as well or only the fixed DNA based parts?

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        3 days ago

        Close but not quite, genotype is the actual dna, phenotype is the observational characteristics.

        But yes, epigenetics would fall under phenotype essentially.