New Gene Tools May Uncover Root Causes of Disease

More than 200 researchers and collaborators in thesuggests that genetic variants located physically
development of gene tools have found substantialcloser to each other are inherited as groups. This
evidence related to human genetic variation tocollective variation are called haplotypes, and the
disease from real time PCR primer design, helpingcatalog of all of these blocks, usually referred as the
them to understanding human evolutionary history,"HapMap" today is publicly available to the biomedical
grounded in data described in a significant paperresearch community interested in real time PCR.In
recently published.The result of the internationalfact, the community has accelerated the
consortium from the United Kingdom, the Uniteddevelopment of new gene tools, searching for gene
States, Canada, Japan, China, and Nigeria, describevariants in primer design relating to disease, finding
common patterns of genetic variation in human DNAnew insights into the old scientific conception of the
on primer design collected from four different sitesgenes involved in human evolution and real time PCR,
around the world. Real time PCR (polymerase chainalthough inheritance can also influence the different
reaction) allows uncovering the root cause of diseaseresponses to environmental factors or to certain
and other genetic disorders.Compared with thedrugs.David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D.
evidence of previous scientific work, research