Positional Cloning at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Positional Cloning? A technique used to identify genes, usually those that are associated with diseases, based on their location on a chromosome. This is contrast to the older, functional cloning technique that relies on some knowledge of a gene protein product. For most d

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