| Issue |
Med Sci (Paris)
Volume 40, Number 3, Mars 2024
Chroniques génomiques
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| Page(s) | 290 - 292 | |
| Section | Forum | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/2024016 | |
| Published online | 22 March 2024 | |
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What “look-alike” individuals tell us
Biologiste, généticien et immunologiste, Président d’Aprogène (Association pour la promotion de la Génomique), 13007 Marseille, France
Abstract
Rare unrelated individuals show striking resemblance, almost as high as monozygotic twins. Extensive genetic analysis of a set of such individuals shows that every couple shares a given allele at a large set of loci, enriched for “face genes”. The similarity is limited to this set of loci, and the rest of the genome is quite diverse in these “look alike” individuals.
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