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October Surprise 2024

Genetic Mapping Fact Sheet – National Human Genome Research Institute

Among the main goals of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to develop new, better and cheaper tools to identify new genes and to understand their function. One of these tools is genetic mapping. Genetic mapping – also called linkage mapping – can offer firm evidence that a disease transmitted from parent to child is linked to one or more genes. Mapping also provides clues about which …