Dysfunctional genomics: BACs to the rescue

Abstract

The Human Genome Project has provided potential access to all of our genes and their DNA sequences. The challenge now is to understand what each gene does, the mechanisms underlying the specificity of gene expression in appropriate cells at particular times in development, and the nature of the interactions among groups of genes that control cellular activity. This emerging area of study—the post-Human genome Project field of inquiry—has been referred to as functional genomics.

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