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Even Genes Believe in Networking

May 25, 2007

At Jackson Laboratory off the coast of Maine, geneticists have inbred a population of 5,000 mice to 40 strains, a process that has created rodents with identical genes. The mice, writes Carl Zimmer in an article in Discover magazine, are ideal for studying cancer, heart disease, and other ailments that are caused by networks of genes acting together, rather than traced to one single gene.

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