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Genetics and genomics in infectious disease susceptibility.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Nov 2001
Blackwell J M
Abstract excerpt
The past decade has witnessed a rapid transition from the first positional cloning of an infectious disease susceptibility gene (Slc11a1, also called Nramp1) in the mouse to genome-wide scans in human multicase families and the identification of potential disease-causing genes by simple inspection of the public human genome databases. Pathogen genome projects have facilitated multilocus sequence typing of...
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