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Congratulations! You're the proud owner of chromosome 9p21.3! What does this mean? It seems it means that you have better-than-even odds you'll get coronary artery disease! Gee, thanks.This week's New England Journal of Medicine discusses the use of the inverse solution of sorts that was used to determine which loci on the human genome are likely to be determinants for coronary artery disease. Now I'm no genome nerd, but I guess this is important. But how will John Q. Public apply this...

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