Are all Mutations harmful because creatures were designed?

MSX1 belongs to the homeobox genes, which encode proteins that set up basic body patterns. Teeth, much like limbs, form according to a genetically determined pattern that is much the same in all humans. We all have the same number of teeth; they all erupt in the same location, and even a casual observer can tell an incisor from a canine or a molar. "So it was intriguing that mapping the entire genome landed us in a region where a previously defined patterning factor resided," says Seidman.The next obvious step-sequencing this candidate gene-turned up a mutation in affected individuals. This mutation leads to the exchange of a single amino acid in the very region of the protein that is crucial to its function as a transcription factor. That region, called the homeodomain, is where the protein latches onto specific spots on the DNA and activates other genes necessary for the formation of the desired pattern. Evolution has conserved that area of the protein-almost to the amino acid-across frogs, chickens, mice, and humans, making it all the more likely that a mutation meddling with that part of the protein may have drastic consequences, says Seidman.

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Dominant mutations in human RUNX2 cause cleidocranial dysplasia and supernumerary teeth.