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For years, scientists have sought to differentiate mutations that actually lead to selective change in a population from mutations that simply arise by chance. But current methods can only identify large stretches of genome as potential selection markers, according to Grossman.
Published online Thursday in the journal Science Express, the paper describes a new algorithm that can identify mutations with a much higher resolution. The method, called "Composite of Multiple Signals", assigns a score to every mutation in a region and then ranks the probability of each mutation influencing the selection...
"If we keep pursuing these signals, we think we can identify a lot of mutations that can confer resistance to infectious disease,” Sabeti said.
• The report blames both the White House and the national-security staff for failing to identify the possibility that analysts would miss such crucial information. In a statement to the press after the President spoke, Brennan, who leads counterterrorism efforts at the White House and conducted the probe himself...
The other expert, who asked to be identified only as a European intelligence official, understands the U.S. consternation over the failure to identify Abdulmutallab before he boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. After all, the official says, an August CIA intercept of a phone conversation in Yemen caught...