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The next phase in human genetics

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Experimental haplotyping of whole genomes is now feasible, enabling new studies aimed at linking sequence variation to human phenotypes and disease susceptibility.

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Figure 1: Experimental approaches to haplotyping genomes.

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  1. Vikas Bansal, Eric J. Topol & Nicholas J. Schork are at Scripps Health, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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  2. Vikas Bansal, Ryan Tewhey, Eric J. Topol & Nicholas J. Schork are at The Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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  3. Eric J. Topol & Nicholas J. Schork are in The Department of Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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Bansal, V., Tewhey, R., Topol, E. et al. The next phase in human genetics. Nat Biotechnol 29, 38–39 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1757

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