http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Data, data everywhere. In genomics research, there is a data deluge, so innovative ways to analyze all that information will play a critical role in future breakthroughs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychology-professor-clues-psychiatric-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:29:22 EST news274523356 A new £100m project will map the DNA of up to 100,000 patients with cancer and other rare diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-sequencing-dna-patients.html Genetics Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:41:02 EST news274434048 The largest-ever analysis of genetic data related to type 1 diabetes has uncovered new genes associated with the common metabolic disease, which affects 200 million people worldwide. The findings add to knowledge of gene networks involved in the origin of this complex disorder, in which patients depend on frequent insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-large-meta-analysis-genes-diabetes.html Genetics Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:19:52 EST news236539177 Researchers have linked a variant in the vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) with the onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Caucasian men. The study population consisted of participants in the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study, a multidisciplinary study of aging that began in 1963. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-gene-variant-linked-copd-men.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 May 2011 03:32:39 EST news224735516