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Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life

Many of the areas of the human genome previously thought to be deserts are in fact teeming with life, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics. Most known human genes in the genome map are still incompletely annotated, says Professor Alexandre Reymond, from the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Department of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

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