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Disease and genetics

Disease and genetics  in a recent issue of the journal Current Opinion in Genetics and Development (Vol 6, No 3), D J Weatherall and A O M Wilkie of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford, uk, provide a succinct introduction to the current state of understanding in the area of human genetics as applied to medicine.

They begin with the Human Genome Project, whose ultimate aim is to generate a complete sequence of the dna in a

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