The nature, pattern and function of human sequence variation

Published: 12 March 2004 Genome Biology 2004, 5:318 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/4/318 © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd reports A report on the 2004 Keystone Symposium ‘Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease’, Breckenridge, USA, 8-13 January 2004. General Hospital, Boston, USA) described a genetic analysis of diabetes. He showed preliminary results suggesting that mitochondrial DNA is involved in type II diabetes and hypothesized that primary...