Rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to diseases
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Original article (to which ScienceDaily has added precisely nothing): http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/abundance-of-rare-dn...
Underlying paper in Science (paywalled): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/05/16/science.1...
Brief writeup from Nature discussing this paper and a couple of others on similar topics: http://www.nature.com/news/humans-riddled-with-rare-genetic-...