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In a tour-de-force demonstration of feasibility, a consortium of 50 research teams uses 500,000 genetic markers from each of 17,000 individuals to identify 24 genetic risk factors for 7 common human diseases.

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Figure 1: Genome-wide association scan.

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  1. Anne M. Bowcock is in the Departments of Genetics, Division of Human Genetics, Pediatrics and Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 4559 Scott Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. bowcock@genetics.wustl.edu,
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