Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Genetic Mapping for Sistic Vibrosis
The first concept of deriving a map of the genom was based on mapping genetic markers that have different characteristics in different people. The idea there was to use these little sign posts along human d and a because they had different variations or sequences in different individuals. So if you have a marker close to a trait, tsistic vibrosis should more often not stay close to each other and not go to a different chromosome. And you can develop statistics around this.
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