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[News] Genetic Interactions Are Key To Understanding Complex Traits


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Genetic Interactions Are Key To Understanding Complex Traits

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2009) — In recent years, genetic studies have uncovered hundreds of DNA variations linked to common diseases, such as cancer or diabetes, raising the prospect that scientists can gauge disease risk based on information in an individual's genome. But the variations identified to date only account for a small percentage – typically one to three percent – of the overall genetic risk of any common disease.

 

Genetic Interactions Are Key To Understanding Complex Traits

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