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SUBMITTER: St Laurent G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4054906 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
St Laurent Georges G Vyatkin Yuri Y Kapranov Philipp P
BMC medicine 20140612
In the past decade, numerous studies have made connections between sequence variants in human genomes and predisposition to complex diseases. However, most of these variants lie outside of the charted regions of the human genome whose function we understand; that is, the sequences that encode proteins. Consequently, the general concept of a mechanism that translates these variants into predisposition to diseases has been lacking, potentially calling into question the validity of these studies. H ...[more]