Finding genes influencing susceptibility to complex diseases in the post-genome era.

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During the last decade, hundreds of genes that harbor mutations causing simple Mendelian disorders have been identified using a combination of linkage analysis and positional cloning techniques. Traditional approaches to gene mapping have been largely unsuccessful in mapping genes influencing so-called 'complex' genetic diseases, however, because of low power and other factors. Complex genetic diseases do not...

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