Understanding why animals are healthy offers path to precision medicine
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 09:50
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have identified a mechanism that explains why some mutations can be disease-causing in one genome but benign in another. The researchers compared thousands of human disease-causing mutations with the analogous sequences of some 100 animal species. They discovered non-human genomes carrying mutations that cause severe disease in humans, yet were benign in the animals.