Researchers are helping to make precision medicine a reality by sequencing entire exomes of people to assess chronic disease risk and drug efficacy. For years, scientists have been using a method called «knockout mice,» which allows them to study gene functions by inactivating a gene in mice and then observing how it affects the mice. Now, researchers are using new methods to study naturally occurring «knockout humans.»
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Researchers use ‘knockout humans’ to connect genes to disease risk
30 abril 2015
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