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Nature 449, 755-756 (18 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449755b; Published online 17 October 2007

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How much involvement can patient advocates have in genetics?

Some of the hype that accompanied the first publications of the human genome sequence in 2001 may have worn off. But these are still heady times for genomics, as demonstrated this week by the release of a greatly enhanced haplotype map or HapMap, which describes the most common forms of human genetic variation (see page 851).