He initially named the company CpG ImmunoPharmaceuticals, with the CpG being shorthand for the DNA pattern at the heart of his work.
The question: Did people with psychiatric illnesses tend to have a distinctive DNA pattern in any of those locations?
If two people share a rare DNA pattern, it makes it more likely that they are related.
The tool allowed him to quickly find a type of DNA pattern that looks like stutters among billions of chemical letters in human DNA.
Any man can submit the short tandem repeats on his Y chromosome and find the surname of men with the same DNA pattern.
Forensic analysts can determine how rare a particular DNA pattern is and then choose to use this to identify possible culprits.
The modern, open dining-kitchen-living area designed for him here has white-wrapped dining room chairs (bound with seat belts, it turns out); a subtle silver DNA pattern worked into the white tile around the fireplace; and, in a bassinet, a decapitated teddy bear wrapped in cellophane.
Jude colleagues focused on one particular type of DNA pattern, called copy number.
