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Applications of genomics in agriculture for the breeding of desired plants with superior traits were enclosed. The critical role of genomics technologies in human genetic testing and in molecular diagnostics for the determination of genetically inherent disorders, in genomic medicine and cancer genomics are discussed. Role of cytogenomics in diagnosing the human brain diseases, the role of genomics in language adaptation of humans and the evolution of the human sex chromosomes are discussed in this chapter.
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Chaitanya, K.V. (2019). Applications of Genomics. In: Genome and Genomics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0702-1_8
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