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Defining the location of genes to a particular chromosome and a particular location of the gene on a chromosome.

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Gene Map Aims To Combat Blood Flukes

Published July 4, 2009, 10:21 pm, Science Daily

The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers hope the map will stimulate research and open doors to new advances in combating this neglected human pathogen.

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This Week in Nature

Published July 2, 2009, 9:02 am, GenomeWeb News

Three genome-wide association studies published in Nature 's early online edition show that many common variants contribute to increased risk for developing schizophrenia -- not just large, rare structural variations.

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Linking genes to geography could revive race myth

Published July 1, 2009, 10:14 am, New Scientist

The Human Genome Project blew apart the idea that "race" was a biologically meaningful term – but new genetic technologies threaten to revive it, warns Osagie Obasogie

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This Week in Genome Biology

Published July 1, 2009, 8:48 am, GenomeWeb News

Charles Criscione at Texas A&M University was first author on a study appearing this week in Genome Biology that created a genetic linkage map for the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni , in order to enable more research on this "neglected pathogen," says the abstract.

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Cancer geneticist Janet Davison Rowley to receive $500,000 Gruber genetics prize

Published July 1, 2009, 7:08 am, EurekAlert!

( Robin Leedy & Associates, Inc. ) Janet Davison Rowley, M.D., a founder in the field of cancer cytogenetics and a renowned leader in molecular oncology, will receive the 2009 Genetics Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. She is being honored with the prestigious international award for discoveries of recurrent chromosomal abnormalities in leukemias and lymphomas -- discoveries ...

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Evolution Blossoms

Published July 1, 2009, 6:15 am, Santa Barbara Independent

Professor Scott Hodges identifies genes that may indicate natural selection among flowers.

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Combating Blood Flukes By Using Gene Map

Published June 30, 2009, 10:08 am, Medical News Today

The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology hope the map will stimulate research and open doors to new advances in combating this neglected human pathogen. S.

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Are human beings impossible to ape?

Published June 30, 2009, 1:13 am, Daily Telegraph

Chimpanzees share 98.4 per cent of our DNA but the differences between us and them are still profound as a new book argues.

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Gene map aims to combat blood flukes

Published June 29, 2009, 4:23 pm, EurekAlert!

( BioMed Central ) The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open-access journal Genome Biology hope the map will stimulate research and open doors to new advances in combating this neglected human ...

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