Gene researchers find variations by ancestry
DISCOVERY COULD HELP PREVENT, TREAT DISEASES AMONG GROUPS
an article By Lisa M. Krieger and Esther Landhuis
Under the skin, we're all the same. That's been the warm-and-fuzzy wisdom of modern genetics, based on the first efforts to sequence the human genome.But a closer look by Mountain View biotech company Perlegen Sciences has found small genetic differences that vary in prevalence among people of different ancestries ...See at http://www.junkdna.com/new_citations.html
posted by Dr. Andras J. Pellionisz at 10:25 AM
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Several aspects beyond the "mass appeal issue" (differences between groups) are also noteworthy. One is, that the familiar SNPs occurring in the regulatory DNA ("junk DNA") are increasingly in the interest of Affymetrix, the parent company of Perlegen. Thus, with the migration of Affymetrix from "gene chip" to "full genome chip", bringing their capacity to into the limelight by a "controversial issue" may serve business purposes. Second, the question "Does Race Exist? Genetic Results May Surprise You" has been answered before (December 2003 Cover Article of Scientific American) - Comment on the 18th of February, by A. Pellionisz
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