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Genetic variation in human disease and a new role for copy number variants.
Mutation research - 1 Sept 2007
Shelling Andrew N, Ferguson Lynnette R
Abstract excerpt
While complex diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, do not follow distinctive Mendelian inheritance patterns, there is now considerable evidence from twin and pedigree studies to show that there are significant genetic influences in the development of many such diseases. In times past, this type of information was considered to be interesting, and was used mainly to alert other members of the families...
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