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Genes in the postgenomic era.
Theoretical medicine and bioethics - 1 Jan 2006
Griffiths Paul E, Stotz Karola
Abstract excerpt
We outline three very different concepts of the gene-instrumental, nominal, and postgenomic. The instrumental gene has a critical role in the construction and interpretation of experiments in which the relationship between genotype and phenotype is explored via hybridization between organisms or directly between nucleic acid molecules. It also plays an important theoretical role in the foundations of disciplines...
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