The looked into the immune cells DNA and didn't find anything. Another "anomaly".When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers, and an intellectual "battle" takes place between the followers of the new paradigm and the hold-outs of the old paradigm.
Repost from "General Forum"
Nature article follows:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100428/ ... 1259a.html
Reporting this week in Nature1, the researchers, led by Sergio Baranzini at the University of California, San Francisco, and Stephen Kingsmore of the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, New Mexico, next looked for a difference in epigenetics — chemical modifications to DNA that affect gene expression but not genetic sequence — in the twins' immune cells and in cells of two other sets of similarly affected twins. But no differences were found in the expression levels of key genes, either.
Although they did not sequence the genomes of the other two sets of twins, they did compare 1 million specific 'spelling variations' (known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) in the sequences of twins with and without MS, confirming that their genomes were the same.
Because the study examined the genome so comprehensively, "it is an incredibly important negative", says David Hafler, a neurologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The results indicate that there is no clear genetic reason to explain why one twin developed MS while the other did not.
