Sentences with phrase «common human diseases»
It hasn't happened, in part because the methods for delivering copies of healthy genes to unhealthy cells were too crude, and in part because the most common human diseases do not have clear - cut genetic targets.
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Examples of common human diseases caused by viruses include the common cold, the flu, chickenpox and cold sores.
Aneuploidy is known to be deleterious and underlies several common human diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders such as trisomy 21 in Down's syndrome.
«It suggests that human adaptation, like most common human diseases, has a complex genetic architecture.»
The Swedish Genomes Program will focus on identifying genetic causes of common human diseases.
Underlying the most common human diseases, however, are entire networks of genes.
Following the award presentation, Feinberg will deliver a lecture on the epigenetic basis of common human disease.