Researchers often believe that their mission is to uncover new biology and genetics, and that someone else will translate them to the clinical arena. Accordingly, many geneticists have worked on “big-science” genomics, including genome-wide association studies focused on common genetic variation in the human species.
研究者总是认为，他们的任务是揭示新生物和遗传学，至于将生物和遗传学转化为临床成果，那是其他人的事情。据此，许多遗传学家从事着“大科学”基因组学，包括专注人类普遍遗传变异的全基因组相关研究。