Creation Of Linkage Map Falters, Posing Delay For Genome Project
Researchers, discouraged by mapping's drudgery, doubt that a 5-year plan to finish high-resolution image is now feasible. WASHINGTON--After three years of escalating expectations, rising financial support, and congressional accolades, the Human Genome Initiative has encountered its first major hurdle. A key element of the project has fallen several years behind schedule, in part because peer review panels at the National Institutes of Health decided that some incoming grant proposals on the to
Jan 7, 1990
Researchers, discouraged by mapping's drudgery, doubt that a 5-year plan to finish high-resolution image is now feasible. |
The immediate obstacle stems from a lack of progress on the so-called linkage map of the genome. The term refers to a list that links human traits and their associated genes to locations on the human DNA molecule....
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