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"Understanding the small effects of many genes across the genome also helps us to identify those patients carrying a faulty gene copy at highest risk of developing the disease. This higher-risk group can be followed more closely, and offered early opportunities to participate in clinical trials testing preventive treatments. Identifying people at the highest risk has been challenging until now."

By comparing the genomes of those with and without the disease, the team were able to identify 80 areas of the genome with a likely link to the disease, the majority of which had not been previously reported, as well as 62 specific genes within those areas that likely had a link to the disease.

"Our study is an attempt to fill those knowledge gaps and understand the risk of ship strikes on a global level. It's important to understand where these collisions are likely to occur because there are some really simple interventions that can substantially reduce collision risk."

Those highest-risk areas for the four while species included in the study lie largely along coastal areas in the Mediterranean, portions of the Americas, southern Africa and parts of Asia.

"The model allows us to begin to explore the reasons for those rules."