HTTP:: Computer Method Can Count Duplicate Genome Sequences
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Particular DNA segments can be found in various amounts from one person to another, even if they are in the same line, as in family. These variations play an important part in our evolution. They can hold the key to boosts of the immune system and to developing resistance to certain diseases, but can also make it a lot easier for certain conditions to set in. Numerous diseases have thus far been linked to an anomalous number of DNA copies at a certain location, and the new method will make it a lot easier to devise screening tests to assess a person's vulnerability to one of these conditions. The new method, named micro-read Fast Alignment Search Tool (mrFAST), was developed by experts from the University of Washington, including Department of Genome Sciences senior fellow Dr. Can Alkan and graduate student Jeffrey M. Kidd, both lead authors of the new research. Details of their method appear in the August 30th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature Genetics. Expe!
rt Jeffrey M. Kidd, a professor of genome sciences at the university, has been the senior author of the paper. Lupus, Crohn's disease, mental retardation, schizophrenia, color blindness, psoriasis, and age-related macular degeneration are among some of the conditions that have been directly linked to...
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