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The Human Genome: Genes and DNA

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In the first two decades of modern research on human chromosomes many aspects of the organization of genetic material in chromosomes were analyzed; however, there was little concrete information on how this knowledge could be integrated with information from molecular biology into a molecular chromosome model. More recently, however, especially since the “new genetics” began to develop in the 1970s, new information has accumulated rapidly. At present, answers are emerging to many questions thought to be unanswerable only a few years ago. In this section we present an overview. The new genetics has had an impact on many aspects of human genetics; we return to these results in many of the later sections.

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