Jumping Genes, Gene Loss And Genome Dark Matter

An international team presents a new map of changes to human genome structure and a resource for researchers to look at the role of these changes in human disease. They also identify 75 "jumping genes" found in more than one location. However, they caution that they have not found large numbers of variants implicated in common diseases such as diabetes or heart disease. They suggest strategies for finding this "dark matter" of genetic variation.

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