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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

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Genetic Epidemiology Is Driving the Basic Biology

Human genetics has been so transformed in the last decade or two that human genetics is now actually driving the basic biology. There is more genetic mutation information in the human genome than there will ever be in any other species. So, if you know that a gene is related to disease, you don't want to just know that it's related to the disease. You want to know what is the disease mechanism because you want to go and intervene.

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