Fantastic Blognanza!

This shirt, care of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is bound to start up all sorts of debates with your friends about the best gene on human chromosome 1. Is it Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, which codes for the homodimeric enzyme that has the glamorous duty of catalyzing the fifth step in heme biosynthesis? Or maybe it’s Myocilin, trabecular meshwork inducible glucocorticoid response (a.k.a. MYOC), with its über-sexy role in cytoskeletal function. If you’re like me and your tastes are a little more indie, perhaps you prefer Potassium voltage-gated channel, KQT-like subfamily, member 4 (KCNQ4), which codes for a super-hip protein that regulates neuronal excitability in the cochlea.

(And I totally didn’t just scour Wikipedia for all that random chromosomal information. That’s a ridiculous suggestion. Stop being ridiculous.)

Anyway, whatever your genetic preferences, all those genes are probably pretty important, so you can’t really go wrong by wearing a shirt with the whole dang chromosome on it. But… what about the other 23 chromosomes? Do I smell a t-shirt series on the way?¹

Thanks to tcritic for the link.

¹Oh man—they could totally have a his/her design with the X- and Y-chromosomes one them. That would be devastatingly nerdy.