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Copy-number variation and association studies of human disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Jul 2007
McCarroll Steven A, Altshuler David M
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The central goal of human genetics is to understand the inherited basis of human variation in phenotypes, elucidating human physiology, evolution and disease. Rare mutations have been found underlying two thousand mendelian diseases; more recently, it has become possible to assess systematically the contribution of common SNPs to complex disease. The known role of copy-number alterations in sporadic genomic...
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