Human genome: Patchwork people
Abstract
For years it was assumed that tiny differences in our genetic make-up gave us our individual traits. Now it seems that those characteristics are caused by rearrangements of large chunks of our DNA - variations that could be the key to understanding disease. Erika Check investigates.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1038/4371084a
- Bibcode:
- 2005Natur.437.1084C