Guilt by association

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作者
Altshuler, D [1 ]
Daly, M
Kruglyak, L
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Boston, MA USA
[3] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Mol Biol, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[4] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Diabet Unit, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[5] MIT, Whitehead Inst, Ctr Genome Res, Cambridge, MA USA
[6] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Seattle, WA 98104 USA
[7] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, Div Human Biol, Genet Program, Seattle, WA 98104 USA
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10.1038/79839
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Positional cloning of common disease genes is a central but elusive goal of human geneticists. Progress is now reported by Bell and colleagues in their study of NIDDM1, a locus implicated in type 2 diabetes. The complex nature of the reported association illustrates the challenge of implicating a specific gene and mutation in the causation of polygenic disease.
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