It is also involved in the International HapMap Project, a five-country initiative launched in October, to follow up the Human Genome Project with a large-scale study of human genetic variation and its relation to disease.

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What we learn from these areas is precisely how evolution has acted to sculpt bodies, but it still does so using randomly-generated genetic variation and good old natural selection (and yes, Larry Moran, genetic drift also plays a role).

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These studies have been made possible by the growth in catalogues and maps of genetic variation among human populations, as well as differences with our closest relatives, such as Neanderthal and chimpanzee.

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The five days will see the establishment of new collaborations and discussions relating to how the objectives laid out in the Project roadmap (2012-2016) can be achieved, principally relating to the creation and maintenance of diseases specific genetic variation databases.

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The researchers cautioned that the study was done in only one type of cancer, and that more research is needed to see how much genetic variation there is in other types of tumors.

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He says that he and others working the field expected to find a pretty big amount of genetic variation.

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They identified eight distinct versions of P. reichenowi (only one had been known before) and found that the DNA of P. falciparum sat nicely in the middle of all this genetic variation.

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