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Inspiring. Finding 'human knockouts' is a fantastic example of what becomes possible as sequencing gets cheap. Steven Hyman (former director of NIMH), recently
by chockablock 12y ago
Inspiring. Finding 'human knockouts' is a fantastic example of what becomes possible as sequencing gets cheap.
Steven Hyman (former director of NIMH), recently argued that this approach is also key to developing treatments for depression:
http://www.nature.com/news/mental-health-depression-needs-large-human-genetics-studies-1.16300 http://www.nature.com/news/mental-health-depression-needs-la...
[At Nature, but not paywalled, thankfully]