New Form Of Inherited Risk Of Cancer Identified, Weill Cornell Medical College Study

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2008) — Like the subtext of a novel, the human genome sequence harbors more information than appears just in its “letters” of A, C, T and G. Since DNA is a data-packed molecule passed from generation to generation, comparing genome sequences among individuals also holds clues to ancestry.

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