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Article: RESEARCHERS PRODUCE FIRST SEQUENCE MAP OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN HUMAN GENOME
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:
A nationwide team of researchers, funded in part by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has produced the first sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation across the human genome. The work, published today in the journal Nature, provides a starting point to examine how such DNA variation contributes to human health and disease.
Other recently created maps, such as the HapMap, have catalogued the patterns of small-scale variations in the genome that involve single DNA letters, or bases. However, the ...