Japanese, German research team sequences human chromosome 21

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Shimizu (L), professor of molecular biology at Keio University's School of Medicine, and Yoshiyuki Sakaki (R), professor at the University of Tokyo, speak at a news conference May 8. They said they and German scientists have decoded the DNA sequence of a human chromosome that contains genes causing Downs syndrome, Alzheimer, leukemia and other genetic disorders.

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