Basic Medicine:Secrets of the Sequence(35)
For centuries' isolation, disease, feuds and disasters limited variation in Iceland's gene pool. In 1995, more people left the country than came to it, although lately there's been a small influx. But Iceland's small population is yielding large genetic returns. Finding abnormal disease-causing genes appears to be easier in a country whose population has such genetic similarity.
- Added:2006
- Country:America
- Duration:30
- Time of update:2011/8/17 15:36:01