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The Stanford team believes that Mapper will be invaluable as scientists continue toward their goal of determining the entire sequence of genetic letters that make up the human genome.

"The maps we've made using this program are among the highest-resolution maps that have been made to date, but they're not detailed enough to allow sequencing the whole genome. Next, we'll do more of the same but with five times the number of markers so that we can use the maps for sequencing," said Myers.

The coming maps will also help researchers find the particular DNA markers that are used to diagnose disease. "The more detailed maps are essential in identifying disease genes, especially for diseases that are inherited in a complex manner and aren't due to a defect in a single gene," said Myers.

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Contact: Mike Goodkind
ma.meg@forsythe.stanford.edu
Stanford University Medical Center
13-May-1996


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