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The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases

Neil Risch [email protected] and Kathleen Merikangas [email protected]Authors Info & Affiliations
Science
13 Sep 1996
Vol 273, Issue 5281
pp. 1516-1517
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5281.1516
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Abstract

The identification of the genetic basis of complex human diseases such as schizophrenia and diabetes has proven difficult. In their Perspective, Risch and Merikangas propose that we can best accomplish this goal by combining the power of the human genome project with association studies, a method for determining the basis of a genetic disease.
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Neil Risch [email protected]
N. Risch is in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA. E-mail: [email protected].
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Kathleen Merikangas [email protected]
K. Merikangas is in the Departments of Epidemiology and Psychiatry Unit, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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