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Over the past 5 years, genomewide association studies have yielded a wealth of insight into genes and chromosomal loci that contribute to susceptibility to disease. This article, the second in the Genomic Medicine series, describes the design of these studies and considers the extent to which the data they provide are useful in predicting the risk of disease.
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