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Commentary
Nature 437, 1233-1234 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/4371233a; Published online 26 October 2005
Deeper into the genome
Richard Gibbs1
- Richard Gibbs is at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Abstract
The next large-scale human genome project after HapMap should catalogue inherited variation in the general population that directly affects gene function, argues Richard Gibbs.
The International HapMap Project has catalogued the patterns of more than 1 million single-base changes (known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in the genome sequences of 269 people drawn from four diverse human populations1. Most of these SNPs do not directly influence gene function, but the data provide valuable information about the overall pattern of chromosome organization and offer new tools for finding disease-causing genes in humans.
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