In the Context of Approaches to Gene Identification and Discovery

question 55

Multiple Choice

In the context of approaches to gene identification and discovery, ________, in which the goal is to discover the location of a gene (or genes) in relation to a marker gene (whose position is already known) , is often used to search for disease-related genes.

• A) the Thousand Genomes Project
• B) genome-wide association
• C) linkage analysis
• D) next-generation sequencing

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