Less materials are consumed. Less sample is needed. This technology will have application long after the genome project. Radiation Hybrid Mapping is used in conjunction with STS sign-posts and PCR assay. Each cell line has a random set of human DNA fragments formed after irradiation of genomic DNA in a hamster cell.
Calculations identify the continuous linkage along each arm of a chromosome.
The markers are assembled into the map as a single linkage group. This provides a simple means to verify sequence positions. Likewise, mapped sites may be found in the already accumulating human genomic sequence data. The success of gaucher's disease gives many great hope of finding treatments, if not a cure, for previously untreatable diseases. Gaucher's disease is a metabolic condition with splenomegaly and lytic bone lesions.