A Variant Here, But Not There

Dec 25, 2009

David Basanta at Cancerevo: Evolution and cancer picked up on a Human Mutatation paper from Bruce Gottlieb and his colleagues that studied the genetic influences on abdominal aortic aneurysms. The researchers found BAK1 SNPs in aneurysmic and healthy tissue without seeing them in the corresponding blood samples.

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