] Physicians at Duke's medical center plan to draw up lists
] of human genes considered likely to play a role in
] diseases of interest, like the 100 or so genes that may,
] when mutated, play a role in coronary artery disease. Dr.
] Venter's center would sequence the full DNA of these 100
] genes from large numbers of patients, looking for the
] mutations that seemed to be linked to the disease. These
] mutations could then be used to assess the risk for
] coronary artery disease in the population at large.
]
] The collaboration, to be called the Genomic-Based
] Prospective Medicine project, will focus first on heart
] disease, a form of cancer yet to be selected and aspects
] of infectious disease. Dr. Venter said that all findings
] would be published in the scientific literature, and that
] other universities were welcome to join.

Project Will Seek to Uncover Genetic Roots of Major Diseases