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Among the 4000 known human genetic disorders, only a handful of disease-causing genes have been mapped. To locate a gene (say an average of 10,000 bp length) in the midst of a 3.2 billion bp chromosomal DNA is hardly a simple task.
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Chapter 17: Finding Disease-Causing Genes
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(2006). Finding Disease-Causing Genes. In: The ABCs of Gene Cloning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28679-9_17
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