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Tracking Down the Genetic Cause of Inherited Diseases

Tracking down the genetic cause of inherited diseases is slow and costly. But Jay Shendure, a Technology Review winner in 2006 and winner of the Lowell Milken Prostate Cancer Foundation young investigator award in 2010, found a way to make it easier. Instead of looking for problem genes by sequencing the 3-billion-letter human genome, he found a way to focus on the 1 percent that causes rare diseases.

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