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Science 19 December 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5346, p. 2047
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2047
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
The Hunting of the SNP

Eliot Marshall

Company efforts to identify fine-scale variations in the human genome for drug development and other applications have galvanized a government plan to catalog these variations (see main text). Academics worry that private companies wielding new technologies for scanning the genome will lock up these "polymorphisms" in patent claims.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)