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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

13 Aug 2026 3:26 am