Blinding folks with Canmephian Science...

[strredwolf]

Researchers trim count of human genes to 20,000-25,000

And the rest is junk -- about 38.5 million, from my guess out of reading the article.  Plenty of room!  Therefore, the Cobrawolf gengineering techniques of optimizing a person's DNA like it was a hard drive and using the resulting space to code up shapeshifters is rather plausible.

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Neverness

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Hmm, An old book I read called Neverness actually had trained assassins in it who trimmed down their own DNA to only the essentials. One of them had eventually taken themselves apart and merged into a much larger being.

They discovered a message hidden in all the extra junk, so the super-being with trimmed DNA couldn't figure it out on her own.