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Published online 4 June 2008 | Nature 453, 709 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453709a
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Biological tools revamp disease classification
The role of gene interactions is explored.
Just as different genes can contribute to similar diseases, so the same genes and families of genes can play a part in a range of different diseases. “The days when we had one gene, one disease have been dead for some time now,” says Nicholas Katsanis of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
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