Performed with individual variations throughout the region, Oku-noto no Aenokoto reflects the everyday culture of the Japanese, who have cultivated rice since ancient times, and serves as a marker of identity for the area s farmers.

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Of course, there are individual variations in the speed and manner in which we learn new things, but we all learn roughly the same ways, and we all take in more information through the eye than in any other way.

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Patients will be followed for as long as 10 years as scientists try to figure out what individual gene variations mean to heart disease risk.

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Biochemists spent 14 years deconstructing DNA into about 25, 000 genes and 1.4 million variations in DNA that make an individual unique, their SNPS, looking for patterns in the data to find useful insights that can improve the quality and lower the cost of health care.

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Unfortunately, because the individual risks associated are generally very small, and the genetic variations are very common, for most diseases this means we are unlikely to be able to predict the likelihood of developing disease in individual patients.

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