Editor's Summary
20 October 2005
We are all individuals
Over 99% of human DNA sequences are the same across the population. But the other 1% includes variations that have a major influence on our response to disease, drugs and even food. Speak not of the human genome, but your human genome.
News Feature: Human genome: Patchwork people
For years it was assumed that tiny differences in our genetic make-up gave us our individual traits. Now it seems that those characteristics are caused by rearrangements of large chunks of our DNA — variations that could be the key to understanding disease. Erika Check investigates.
doi: 10.1038/4371084a
