Output Stream of Consciousness - Latest Comments on Parenthood, Part II http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/index.php?blog=2&disp=comments en-CA http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Nimble [Member] in response to: Parenthood, Part II Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:25:02 +0000 nimble [Member] c1576@http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/ <p>It feels cooler being a grumpy old nerd than it used to as a young nerd :)</p> <p>&lt;Munson&gt;NERRRRRRD&lt;/Munson&gt;</p> <p>It&#8217;s poignant for me because I&#8217;m positive for those gene variants. So are you, in fact, and you&#8217;re homozygous for both, which means that our kids <em>definitely</em> have the trait.</p> <p>Then you had to go breastfeed them both. <em>What have you done!?!</em> :) :)</p> <p>23andme points to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Search&amp;db=pubmed&amp;term=17984066" rel="nofollow">this paper</a> for this particular genetic effect.</p> It feels cooler being a grumpy old nerd than it used to as a young nerd :)

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It’s poignant for me because I’m positive for those gene variants. So are you, in fact, and you’re homozygous for both, which means that our kids definitely have the trait.

Then you had to go breastfeed them both. What have you done!?! :) :)

23andme points to this paper for this particular genetic effect.

]]> http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/index.php/parenthood-part-ii?blog=2#c1576 dena [Member] in response to: Parenthood, Part II Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:54:52 +0000 dena [Member] c1575@http://blogs.nimblebrain.net/ <p>rofl! I am absolutely beside myself that you made the &#8220;if you have ____ genotype and breastfeed, your kids will have a higher IQ&#8221; argument&#8230;</p> <p>Nerd!<br /> /I &lt;3 nerds! :D</p> rofl! I am absolutely beside myself that you made the “if you have ____ genotype and breastfeed, your kids will have a higher IQ” argument…

Nerd!
/I <3 nerds! :D

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