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Technical issue impacting phone calls and emails

As a result of a widespread Microsoft 365 outage, some phone calls and emails to SickKids staff may not go through. Read more here.

August 1, 2004

Surprising discovery reveals gains or losses of large segments of DNA in healthy people

Scientists at SickKids, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have made the unexpected discovery that significant differences can exist in the overall content of DNA and genes contained in individual genomes. These findings point to possible new explanations for individual uniqueness as well as why disease develops.

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