Book Author: Richard Lewontin Reviewed by: Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Biologists know that complex traits are typically associated with genetic variation between individuals. Nevertheless, if we hear on the news that obesity, antisocial …
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Just before his appointment as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, the most prominent medical geneticist of our time, had his own genome scanned for disease susceptibility genes. He had decided, so he said, that the technology of personalised genomics was finally mature enough to yield meaningful results.
Continue readingJonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The case of Irina Ermakova Quite likely it surprised regular readers of Nature Biotechnology that for the September (2007) issue their favoured journal had invented a new article format specifically …
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