Steve Dow reports:
It could be a grief-saving app of the future, the day we carry our gene sequence in our phones.
When two people want to have children, they’ll bump genomes and a database might reply: ”Think again, you both have faulty disease-causing copies of the same gene.”That’s the hope of the Australian geneticist Richard Cotton, who heads the international Human Variome Project, which aims to collect all variations of all genes that cause all disease from all countries.
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