http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A study dating the age of more than 1 million single-letter variations in the human DNA code reveals that most of these mutations are of recent origin, evolutionarily speaking. These kinds of mutations change one nucleotide – an A, C, T or G – in the DNA sequence.  Over 86 percent of the harmful protein-coding mutations of this type arose in humans just during the past 5,000 to 10,000 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-genetic-variation-varies-populations.html Genetics Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:37 EST news273327980 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 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