Team Maps the Human Epigenome

Understanding the bookmarks of our genome may lead to better targeted treatments for disease.

By Dan Ferber
Nov 30, 2015 6:00 AMNov 22, 2019 4:03 AM
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In the 12 years since the Human Genome Project was completed, biologists have linked more than a thousand regions of the genome to disease. “But in most cases, we don’t actually know how they function,” says Manolis Kellis, a computational biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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