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School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK LS2 9JT.
Trends Genet. 2001 Jun;17(6):297-9. doi: 10.1016/s0168-9525(01)02276-4.
Four recent papers mark a major shift in functional genomic analysis for multicellular organisms. RNA-mediated interference was applied to inactivate individual genes systematically on a genomic scale. These studies subjected a third of the genes in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans to reverse genetic analysis.