Researchers at the University of Utah and other institutions have sequenced for the first time the entire genome of a family, enabling them to accurately estimate the average rate at which parents pass genetic mutations to their offspring and also identify precise locations where parental chromosomes exchange information that creates new combinations of genetic traits in their children. Led by scientists at the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, the study, published March 11, 2010 in Science Express, sequenced the entire genome of a family of four – the parents, daughter, and son…
