Maps of Human, Mouse DNA Finish 1st Phase of Gene Catalog
from Times staff and wire reports
In a step that completes the first phase of the huge project to catalog the human scientists are publishing two comprehensive maps of mouse and human DNA. The information in the maps has greatly speeded searches for single genes that cause disease and has made it possible to look for genes that act together to contribute to other diseases, said Elke Jordan of the National Center for Human Genome Research in Bethesda, Md.
In the genetic maps, published in today’s edition of Nature, each chromosome is depicted as a line, and the landmarks are located along it. The mouse map gives 7,377 landmarks, the human map 5,264.
