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Opinion

New methods for finding disease-susceptibility genes: impact and potential

Mark I McCarthy1 email, Damian Smedley2 and Winston Hide3

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington, Oxford 0X3 7LJ, UK

European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:119doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-10-119

Published: 19 September 2003

Subject areas: Medicine, Genome studies, Genetics

Abstract

Improved techniques for defining disease-gene location and evaluating the biological candidacy of regional transcripts will hasten disease-gene discovery.


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