The Human Gene Connectome
May 14, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
Why do no two people ever have exactly the same disease? The answer is in their unique genomes and connectomes. The connectome is “the full set of distances, routes (the genes on the way), and degrees of separation between any two human genes,” according to computational biologists at Rockefeller University, and even monogenic diseases involve multigene pathways. As a tool, the connectome is a map that should make morbid pathways easier to discover. MORE
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