NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The broad problem with narrow gene studies

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Around 16 percent of all human genes were identified by 1991. Yet 24 years later, those genes were still the subjects of about half of all genetic research published in 2015, the New York Times reports. A new study released today studies … studies, published by the scientific community, that focus on only a fraction of the 20,000 protein-coding human genes. Why not explore deeper? “Graduate students who investigated the least studied genes were much less likely to become principal investigators later in their careers,” the NYT reported.