Genes again

If you believe the stuff on BSA about genetics? Read on.

The Wellcome Trust is an independent research-funding charity established in 1936 under the will of tropical medicine pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome. The Trust's mission is to promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. It currently spends more than £400 million per annum.

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The article quoted below is on population genetics:

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/News-archive/Browse-by-date/2004/Features/WTX022535.htm

'Time and again, an association between a gene and a disease was reported, but when other researchers looked for the same effect, they could not reproduce the result. “About 10 years ago, geneticists got very nervous about these kinds of studies,” says Professor Cardon. “They were afraid that differences in population structure were leading to the irreproducible results – and there are examples where population structure is known to have caused problems. But it was not only lack of attention to broad ethnic differences, but small samples that led to the confusion. We now know that if we are to find the genes that have small effects on common diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis, we need to study large numbers of people and we need to know, at a fine level, the genetic structure of that sample of people.”'

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