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Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt

Nature Genetics volume 39, pages 813–815 (2007)Cite this article

Genome-wide association studies, exemplified by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium and follow-up studies, have identified dozens of common variants robustly associated with common diseases, providing new clues about genetic architecture in humans. Finding all such loci, and fully defining genotype-phenotype correlation, will be a key to translating initial clues into pathophysiological understanding and clinical prediction.

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  1. David Altshuler and Mark Daly are at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. altshuler@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu and mjdaly@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu,

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