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The future of genomic medicine: can it fulfil its promises?

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While there may be just under 20,000 confirmed protein coding genes, it turns out that much of the genome outside of these genes is also important in regulating how the genome is controlled. Most current technology actually focuses on looking at the bits of the genome that produce proteins.

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