Evidence That Friends Really Are The Family We Choose

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Evidence That Friends Really Are The Family We Choose

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/14/friends-genetics-study_n_5585228.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/._GGYw9eRzY3iiAST8LSwA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/200x200/http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1909075/original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Evidence That Friends Really Are The Family We Choose" align="left" title="Evidence That Friends Really Are The Family We Choose" border="0" /></a>Sister from another mister. Brother from another mother. The family you choose. When it comes to describing your friends, those turns of phrase may be a lot more accurate than you think. Genetics researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University have found that friends can share a lot of the same genes -- the same amount of genes, in fact, as are shared by fourth cousins. &quot;In a lot of genetics research, the assumption is that we are interacting with lots of people who are not related to us, so genes aren't going to matter,&quot; said</p><br clear="all"/>

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