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Nature Medicine 11, 1263 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm1205-1263

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A catalog of human genetic variations published in October may give researchers a faster and cheaper way to search the human genome for variations that can cause disease.In the past, researchers trying to identify a gene that causes a specific disease spent months testing patients and sorting through about 10 million variations, or single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).