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Myth of the Overlarge Organ Syndrome
libfemme ( 10/01/2003, 08:30:39 )The major risk talked about the most is the risk of enlarged organs. Cloned mice, sheep and cows have had enlarged hearts, lungs and placentas. Why should we not expect the same things to happen in cloned humans?Answer: Humans are not the same species as mice, sheep and cows. They are not even the same order.The hierarchy of classification of species goes1. Kingdom 2. Phylum 3. Class 4. Order 5. Family 6. Genus 7. SpeciesThe more categories two species have in common the more closely related they are. Humans and mice, sheep and cows are in the same Class-mammal, but there the similarities end. Humans are in the Order-primate. Primates are different from the order Rodentia (mice) or Artiodactyla (sheep and cows).Primates have something that the other two orders do not.: "insulin-like growth factor II receptor" or IFG2R. This gene is the one responsible for regulating fetal growth. In rodents and artiodactyla this gene is imprinted. That means only one gets turned on. In primates, however the gene is not imprinted. Both copies, one from mom and one from dad get switched on. That means that the enlarged organ syndrome is not as common in humans as it is in mice or sheep.It does occur occassionally in normal sexual human births however. When? When a diabetic mother gets pregnant. Since the name of the gene is "insulin-like growth factor II receptor" you can guess why a diabetic might have a defect IFG2R gene and therefore might be susceptible to giving birth to a child with such defects. This is one reason why diabetic women are warned against getting prenant. Of course diabetic women go ahead and risk it all the time. It would outrage a lot of people in society if we were to success that it should be made illegal for a diabetic woman to even attempt to get pregnant naturally. And yet some in our Congress have proposed that non-diabetic women who even attempt to get pregnant by cloning should be put in jail for that reason. Even though, a non-diabetic woman does not have a defect "insulin-like growth factor II receptor" gene nor is this gene switched off in humans!The risk of overlarge organ syndrome is real among lower order mammals. It is not the same, or even common among primates such as human beings.What's more. All the animal cloners who are against human reproductive cloning already know this! So why are they scaring every one away from human reproductive cloning with dishonest scienitific information? Politics and money. That's why.
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