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Volume 37 Issue 2, February 2005

Cover art: "Chromazoom" by Robert Burke. Photographed at Burning Man 2000 by DzM. http://www.burningman.com http://bm.dzm.com

Editorial

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Correspondence

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Book Review

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News & Views

  • A common inversion segregating in human populations reminds us of the complex interactions between different levels of genomic diversity, from single nucleotide variants to large-scale genomic rearrangements. These rearrangements are of special interest when they bear the mark of natural selection.

    • Arcadi Navarro
    • Elodie Gazave
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  • Telomeres cap the ends of linear chromosomes and prevent them from being recognized as double-strand breaks needing repair. How they go about hiding the ends from the DNA-repair apparatus is becoming a broader question, as a new study identifies an increasingly incestuous relationship between DNA-repair factors and telomere-binding proteins.

    • Woodring E Wright
    • Jerry W Shay
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  • Admixture mapping is an old concept that has only now been applied with markers across the entire genome. Such a study scanning an African American population identified two chromosomal regions affecting susceptibility to hypertension.

    • Ariel Darvasi
    • Sagiv Shifman
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  • Random monoallelic expression is known to affect a variety of autosomal genes involved in specifying cell identity. Now, the neuronally expressed protocadherins can be added to this list.

    • Andrew Chess
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