A faster and cheaper way to find disease genes in the human genome that is being developed by researchers in the US has passed its initial “proof of concept” test by finding previously unknown gene mutations for Freeman-Sheldon syndrome, a rare Mendelian disorder, in unrelated affected individuals. Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle wrote about their work in a paper that appears in the 16 August issue of Nature.
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