http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from American Society of Human Genetics A consortium of scientists who are taking a novel approach in their research to detect the genetic variations that predispose individuals to type 2 diabetes provided an update of their findings at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2012 meeting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-diabetes-genetic-involves-major-ancestry.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:30:02 EST news271614096 A research team reported that next generation sequencing of the exome, the 1 to 2% of the DNA containing the genes that code for proteins, enabled the identification of the genetic causes of unexplained intellectual disability in over 50% of patients in a study conducted at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unexplained-intellectual-disability-state-of-the-art-genetic.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:07 EST news271583182 A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes, according to a presentation on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-significant-relationship-mortality-telomere-length.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:05 EST news271583215 Research findings confirming that de novo mutations represent a major cause of previously unexplained intellectual disability were presented on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-exome-sequencing-potential-diagnostic-assay.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:03 EST news271583263 About 10.6% of the inherited genetic risk for developing coronary artery disease (CAD) can be explained by specific DNA variations, according to research reported today at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dna-variants-percent-inherited-genetic.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:01 EST news271583304 Whole genome sequencing of the DNA code of three prenatal samples provided a detailed map of the locations of their chromosomal abnormalities in 14 days, scientists reported today at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-genome-sequencing-de-novo-rearrangements.html Genetics Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:30:01 EST news271508420 A presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting updated genetics experts about a one-year-old research initiative that brought together researchers, clinicians and policy experts to tackle the challenges of incorporating new genomic technologies into clinical care of newborns, infants and children with anatomical defects whose causes are unknown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dna-sequencing-infants-children-anatomical.html Genetics Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:30:14 EST news271440644 Scientists have adopted a novel laboratory approach for determining the effect of genetic variation on the efficiency of the biological process that translates a gene's DNA sequence into a protein, such as hemoglobin, according to a presentation, Nov. 6, at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-method-link-genomic-variation-protein.html Genetics Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:30:01 EST news271440596 A multi-institutional team of researchers has sequenced the DNA of 6,700 exomes, the portion of the genome that contains protein-coding genes, as part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-funded Exome Sequencing Project, one of the largest medical sequencing studies ever undertaken. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-exome-sequencing.html Genetics Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:27:56 EST news271412782