Exons: Researchers Sequence 'Exomes' Of New Strategy For Finding Disease Genes

"....demonstrated the feasibility and value of a new strategy for identifying relatively rare genetic variants that may cause or contribute to disease....The new strategy involves isolating and sequencing all exons which are the parts of the human genome that contain the information needed to produce proteins, the building blocks of the body. The complete set of exons – referred to as the "exome" – makes up only one percent of the human genome. By selecting only the exome to sequence, the important information about an individual can be obtained at a much lower cost than sequencing a person's entire genome."