Genetic Anaylsis of complex disease processes

基因组计划为利用遗传学研究疾病开辟了道路。这种方法在人类和哺乳动物生物学中仍然是相当新的。这需要统计学家和计算机科学家以及研究这种疾病的生物学家和临床医生的大量投入。该团队正在寻找导致复杂遗传病的基因，并使用人类群体和家庭以及人类疾病的老鼠模型。这包括癌症发展的修饰物和对传染病以及耳聋和自身免疫性疾病的反应。

The genome project has opened the path for the study of diseases using genetics. This approach is still quite recent in human and mammalian biology. It requires a large amount of input from statisticians and computer scientists as well as from the biologists and clinicians working on the disease. The team is looking for genes causing complex genetic diseases and use human populations and families as well as mouse models of human diseases. This includes modifiers of cancer development and response to infectious disease as well as deafness and autoimmune diseases.