What we can learn from nature switching off human genes
‘Knockout’ genes, where a person has a loss-of-function variant that has disrupted both copies, identified on a mass scale in a recent Pakistani study, offer researchers the opportunity to study whether the absence causes disease, is beneficial, or produces no effect
· 8/12/2026, 9:56:23 PM· 2 min read
‘Knockout’ genes, where a person has a loss-of-function variant that has disrupted both copies, identified on a mass scale in a recent Pakistani study, offer researchers the opportunity to study whether the absence causes disease, is beneficial, or produces no effect
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