Breakthrough of the year. Human genetic variation.
Equipped with faster, cheaper technologies for sequencing DNA and assessing variation in genomes on scales ranging from one to millions of bases, researchers are finding out how truly different we are from one another.
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D019295:Computational Biology; D018628:Gene Dosage; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D014644:Genetic Variation; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide