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Using genetic variation to study human disease.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Nov 2001
Taylor J G, Choi E H, Foster C B, Chanock S J
Abstract excerpt
The generation of a draft sequence of the human genome has spawned a unique opportunity to investigate the role of genetic variation in human diseases. The difference between any two human genomes has been estimated to be less than 0.1% overall, but still, this means that there are at least several million nucleotide differences per individual. The study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), the most common...
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