Preface

Genetics has emerged as a dominant force in biology, medicine, and research during the past century and its power and utility has accelerated in recent years. The dominance of genetics stems from its central importance in explaining the most basic mysteries of life and its unsurpassed methods of analysis that allow one to elucidate function and mechanisms in virtually every area of biology. Over the past few years, the field of genetics has advanced at a frenzied pace, with information and discoveries from all the genetic model systems participating together in a highly synergistic manner to explicate the mysteries of biology.

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