Dec 15 2008
Study of Common Variants Finds Rare Mutation With Implications For Heart Disease Prevention
Genome-wide association studies, the research projects that connect SNPs to different traits and conditions (and fuel much of the 23andMe Health and Traits feature), focus on fairly common genetic variations that generally have small effects on risk.
But critics of this type of research charge that studying common variation is of little value because it misses [...]
