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Utah's big, stable, Mormon families--with extensive genealogical histories--are viewed by scientists as a perfect laboratory for the study of human genetics. Utah DNA is being used for scientific studies that seek to identify chromosomes linked to diseases like asthma, diabetes, autism and arthritis. Other researchers are studying how the genes for left-handedness and longevity have moved through the Utah gene pool. It started in the 1970s at the...

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