How many diseases does it take to map a SNP? Fifteen years on

K en and I are here in Finland, preparing to teach a week of Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics with Joe Terwilliger and colleagues.  Not s...

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Chronic diseases due to infection?

A new paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens , described here , reports that hypertension, or high blood pressure, may be due to infection wit...

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