Genetic Alliance, a network of more than 600 support groups representing patients with inherited disorders, is trying to set up a database of information about the diseases in question for researchers to consult.

ECONOMIST: REPORTS

The most basic of traits (for example, the redness of a tomato) can depend on a complicated network of several sequences of genetic code.

FORBES: Putting Evolution to Work

One interesting point about this observation is that it requires both a genetic input (the 7R variant) and an environmental one (the network of friends) to take effect.

ECONOMIST: The genetics of politics

She said there should be a National Carrier Clinic Network, to track everyone in the country who was at a higher genetic risk of developing cancer.

BBC: Prostate cancer