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...confirmed by the [U.S.] Senate, I would welcome the opportunity to lead CMS because it offers the chance to help extend the effort to improve America’s health care system,” Berwick said in the statement...
...CMS has shown potential for many applications before it saw full development, according to the paper's senior author Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology and associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard...
Previously, using an approach similar to CMS, Sabeti’s lab had localized a mutation in a gene called EDAR that may be responsible for Asians having less body hair. Sabeti also cited genes influencing lactose intolerance and malaria resistance as areas her team has already researched and hopes to further shed light on with CMS...
Currently, analysis with CMS has been limited to human genes, but judging from its potential usefulness, Harvard Biology Professor Daniel L. Hartl said he predicts the new method may soon be used to analyze other organisms’ genomes as well...
...CMS] doesn’t solve all the problems, since there’s so much variation in the human genome," he said. "But it allows you to narrow down the field, and that’s a big improvement...