The study is «important as a proof - of - principle,» adds
human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who himself is on the hunt for rare genes that protect against disease and wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.
The deCODE whole genomes study is «an amazing piece of work» that «was impossible 5 years ago,» says
human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research.
Not exact matches
«It's very interesting work that should help us fill in the picture of how
human migration is tied to the dissemination of leprosy,» says
Daniel Hartl, a population
geneticist at Harvard University.