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November 05, 2015

Predicting the human genome using evolution
Oxford, UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2015
To gain a clearer picture of health and disease, scientists have now provided an independent reference for all human variation by looking through the evolutionary lens of our nearest relatives. Such a powerful approach has been developed by Temple University professor Sudhir Kumar and colleagues and was detailed in the advanced online publication of Molecular Biology and Evolution. "There are two ways to generate a map of the human genome variation: one is to get genomes of all the humans and buil ... read more

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