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Variants in common diseases

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Most common diseases arise from interaction between multiple genetic variations and factors such as diet. Studies of such diseases that exploit the rich data on variation in the human genome are just beginning.

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  1. Nelson B. Freimer is in the UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 695 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095-1761, USA. nfreimer@mednet.ucla.edu,

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  2. Chiara Sabatti is in the UCLA Departments of Human Genetics and Statistics, 695 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095-7088, USA. csabatti@mednet.ucla.edu,

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Freimer, N., Sabatti, C. Variants in common diseases. Nature 445, 828–829 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05568

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