Arbiter Gene (Ownage)

The Arbiter Gene is a 24th, monoploid chromosome somehow linked to Awakening in humans. Whether it's a cause or an effect is unknown, though general consensus leans towards the latter. It is widely used as a marker to identify Awakened humans, as there have been no cases of an ordinary human possessing it, or of the Gene being absent from an Awakened human.

It's not quite clear who coined the term 'Arbiter Gene', though the general belief is that it was a reference to the infalliability of the gene in determining whether or not a person was Awakened. Nothing else needs to be examined, because nothing else is relevant--or so most people believe, in any case. People studying the gene (which is technically a chromosome, but the term Arbiter Gene gained widespread use, much to the frustration of geneticists) caution that little is known about it, but until it proves falliable they're likely to be mostly

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"The Arbiter Gene is a 24th, monoploid chromosome that resides in the cells of what is now estimated to be some .2% of the human population and 78% of demons so far analyzed as of this writing.

It was originally called a gene because, in the earliest samples examined - and the overwhelmingly vast majority of cases - the arbiter gene consists only of a single gene. The term persists in common parlance as the phenomenon spreads.

As a monoploid gene, it does not properly divide into the germ line. In fact, sperm and ova that end up with a haploid portion of this gene self-terminate, marginally reducing the fertility of the subjects.