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. 2017 Sep 3;5(5):466-472.
doi: 10.1002/mgg3.326. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Medical genetics and genomic medicine in Turkey: a bright future at a new era in life sciences

Tayfun Özçelik  1
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Medical genetics and genomic medicine in Turkey: a bright future at a new era in life sciences

Tayfun Özçelik. Mol Genet Genomic Med. .

Abstract

Medical genetics and genomic medicine in Turkey: a bright future at a new era in life sciences.

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Map of the Mediterranean basin by Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer. The map shown is from the 16th century book Kitab‐ı Bahriye.
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Figure 2
Albert Einstein's letter to the Turkish government in 1933.
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Figure 3
Aziz Sancar and İhsan Doğramacı discussing DNA repair.
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Figure 4
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, in Anıtkabir.
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Figure 5
A scheme for “reverse phenotyping” of disease‐associated genes.
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