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鈥淲here you are going is more important than how fast you are going鈥

鈥楲ight skin鈥 gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 Nov 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in 鈥渁lmost 100%鈥 of Europeans - broadly conforms to many...

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Finding the 鈥榞enetic signposts鈥 of disease

01 Sep 2007

One of the biggest projects ever undertaken to identify genetic variants that predispose some people to certain diseases was begun in 2005, thanks to...

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