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Article: EIGHT NEW HUMAN GENOME PROJECTS OFFER LARGE-SCALE PICTURE OF GENETIC DIFFERENCES AMONG INDIVIDUALS,FIND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN HUMAN DNA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The University of Washington Health Sciences campus issued the following news release:
A nationwide consortium led by the University of Washington in Seattle has completed the first sequence-based map of structural variations in the human genome, giving scientists an overall picture of the large-scale differences in DNA between individuals. The project gives researchers a guide for further research into these structural differences, which are believed to play an important role in human health and disease. The results appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature.
The project involved sequencing the genomes of eight people from a diverse set of ethnic backgrounds: four individuals of ...