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Article: The Gene Dilemma: French steal lead in DNA research
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1994
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A COLLECTION of paintings sold at Sotheby's, and a series of
telethons featuring a piano-playing geneticist, have raised the
money that has allowed France to steal a march on the British and
Americans in the study of human DNA.
A pounds 5m bequest from an art collector and an annual
televisual charity event enabled Jean Dausset, the French Nobel
laureate, to assemble a world-beating team at a laboratory in
Paris, the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH).
Last month, they established a world lead by publishing the
equivalent of the Michelin guide to the human genome - the entire
collection of human genes.
The French researchers produced the first physical map, which
will be a vital ...