Searching for the soul of the genome
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
The discovery that a 'gene desert' on chromosome 9 was a hotspot for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk was among the highlights of findings produced recently by genome-wide association studies, which compare the genomes of many people for genetic variations and have been broadly used in the past few years to study hundreds of diseases and complex traits. Gene deserts are large genomic segments devoid of genes...
