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A report on the 7th Wellcome Trust Genomic Disorders conference held at the Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, April 10-12, 2013.

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  • Stretching the genome Massively parallel genomic technologies have given us unprecedented insight into human genetic variation and disease

  • A report on the 7th Wellcome Trust Genomic Disorders conference held at the Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, April 10-12, 2013

  • Disparate disciplines are converging with the aim of untangling the complex basis of human disease, and all disorders are considered ‘genomic’, contributed to by myriad variants differing in frequency, size, location and effect

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Stretching the genome Massively parallel genomic technologies have given us unprecedented insight into human genetic variation and disease. A report on the 7th Wellcome Trust Genomic Disorders conference held at the Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, April 10-12, 2013. Sixty years of DNA and the Cambridge connection The race to discover the structure of DNA was brought to life by Jim Lupski (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) and Helen Firth (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK) at the outset of the meeting.

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