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Nature 447, 623 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/447623a; Published online 6 June 2007

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Race to discover disease-linked genes reaches fever pitch.

This February, Laura Scott, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, spent her holiday sitting in a ski lodge in front of her computer, "very occasionally trying to go out and ski". She was working on one of three papers that appeared online in Science in April, the same day that a competing group announced similar findings in Nature Genetics1, 2, 3, 4.

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