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Erika Check

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7062, 1084-1086

Abstract: For years it was assumed that tiny differences in our genetic make-up gave us our individual traits. Now it seems that those characteristics are caused by rearrangements of large chunks of our DNA — variations that could be the key to understanding disease. Erika Check investigates.

Date: 2005
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