1.   Because DNA regions that are close to each other in the chromosome are usually inherited together, disease genes are expected to lie near these markers.

2.   Because scientists are not certain how disease causing genes are distributed, the geneticists at the conference were divided on the need to keep track of ethnicity.

3.   But finding disease genes is only a first step, White said.

4.   DNA Sciences and most other companies want to find some disease genes themselves.

5.   Identifying the major human disease genes has been an important goal of the Human Genome Project.

6.   In a recent interview, Hyman said he wants to integrate genetic studies with behavioral research and move away from sponsoring hunts for disease genes for their own sake.

7.   It is the first time that a disease resistance gene has been engineered into rice and the first for a cereal crop, experts said.

8.   Millennium said last year it identified two disease genes that have been shown to cause obesity in animals.

9.   Researchers have decoded a region of the human genome that may prove to be one of the main repositories of disease genes.

10.   Sequana has developed large-scale methods of searching for disease genes, with studies in asthma, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, schizophrenia and manic depression.