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Dec 21, 2015

In PLOS Genetics, a University of Hawaii-led team traces an inherited cancer syndrome in four apparently unrelated families from different parts of the US back to a German couple born in the 1700s.

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Prize for Five

Five researchers are to share this year's Albany Medical Center Prize for their work on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool, the AP reports.

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This Week in Genome Research

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