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From ear to eternity
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020610-02
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Ear wax comes in two forms, wet and dry, and is determined by a single gene that is implicated in controlling the development of the apocrine glands. In 8 June The Lancet, Hiroaki Tomita and colleagues from Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan, describe the chance discovery of the location for the gene that codes for ear wax on chromosome 16 (Lancet 2002, 359:2000-2002).
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