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From Focus:
Genome Scanning
Technique Spots Disease Risk Through Sorting Ancestry Mix
A certain genetic inheritance from European ancestors may put African Americans
at higher risk for multiple sclerosis, report researchers who used a powerful
new way to search for genetic variations associated with disease. The technique,
admixture mapping, works only in populations of recently mixed ancestry. It takes
advantage of the potentially higher-risk genetic segments from one population
that show up in the other. The presence of higher-risk segments in the otherwise
lower-risk DNA may reveal common genes that contribute to disease. The study,
led by David Reich, linked MS for the first time with a region on chromosome
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Upcoming
General Interest Lecture:
Health Care in America: It Is Broken—It Can Be
Fixed
Ken Olden
National Institute for Environmental Sciences
Monday, Oct. 17
3:30 p.m.–5:00p.m.
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Spotlight
Photo by Steve Gilbert Leder
Program Bridges Basic Science and Medical Education
In the spring, graduate students in the biomedical sciences will be able
to join the Leder Medical Sciences Program, designed to narrow the gap between
basic sciences and clinical research. Directed by Connie Cepko, the program
also aims to further integrate the cultures of science and medicine.
Student Scene
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Tulane Hospital Trainee Weathers Hurricane Katrina
Senior anesthesiology resident Eliot Fagley, of Tulane University Hospital in
New Orleans, tells Joseph Ladapo (above) about the ordeal following hurricane
Katrina, when patient care demanded stoic—sometimes heroic—measures.
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