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Nature 445, 688-689 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445688a; Published online 14 February 2007
Broad sweep of genome zeroes in on diabetes
Gene Russo
In 1918, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer of modern statistics, published a paper on the genetic causes of disease that brought together two rival factions. Geneticists promoted a paradigm in which diseases worked a lot like Mendel's pea plants, with just one or two genes responsible for each condition.
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