There may be a new record for the largest family tree ever assembled. It dates back to the 15th century. It is comprised of 13 million individuals. And it is only one part of an even larger collection of genomic information: a collection compiled by the computational biologist Yaniv Erlich and stored not in albums or on walls, but in machines.
Presented at the annual meeting American Society of Human Genetics in Boston, and discussed in the journal Nature , the mega-repository could offer a new way for researchers to analyze the relationships between human genotypes and phenotypes — between, essentially, nature and nurture Read more...
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