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The foundations of the science of genetics were laid last century by the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel [1]. As a result of his experiments in cross-breeding peas and beans, he observed that the inheritance of single traits can be explained by genetic factors which are passed on from one generation to the next. At the suggestion of Johannsen (1908) these fundamental units of heredity were named genes. Modern recombinant DNA techniques allow the genes in the complex human genome to be identified and mapped, and permits the analysis of their fine structure. Modern molecular human genetics is also known as “new genetics” [2].
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Müller, H. (1989). The significance of DNA technology in medicine. In: Jucker, E. (eds) Progress in Drug Research. Progress in Drug Research, vol 33. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9146-2_12
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