Show Notes
This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 459.
Song title: Five Hundred Names
Original Base by Base episode: 459: Cerebral palsy genetics: 515 candidate genes, evidence for 89
Article metadata:
Article title: A phenotypic paradigm for cerebral palsy genetics
Journal: The American Journal of Human Genetics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.08.007
Reference: Arterbery, A.S., Gargano, M.A., et al., and Robinson, P.N. (2026). A phenotypic paradigm for cerebral palsy genetics. The American Journal of Human Genetics 113, 1972-1986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.08.007
Lyrics:
Verse 1
Five hundred names on the page.
Each one found in someone's child.
Each one written down as the reason.
Mantra
Found is not the same as known.
Found is not the same as known.
Verse 2
Count everyone who carries it.
Count how many of them have the palsy.
Hold that against how often it comes anyway,
two or three in every thousand births.
Mantra
Weigh it.
Weigh it slow.
Verse 3
Eighty-nine names grew heavier when the numbers were laid down beside them, and the rest did not grow lighter, they only stayed unproven, still waiting on the scale for more children, more pages, more time.
Bridge
Four hundred sixty children.
Sixty genes.
Sixteen with the weight behind them.
Mantra
Found is not the same as known.
But known begins with found.
Outro
Five hundred names.
Eighty-nine that hold.
The rest are only waiting.
Weigh it slow.
Weigh it slow.
