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Returning genetic incidental findings without patient consent violates basic rights, experts say

Informed consent is the backbone of patient care. Genetic testing has long required patient consent and patients have had a "right not to know" the results. However, as 21st century medicine now begins to use the tools of ...

Genetics created May 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Final chapter to 60-year-old blood group mystery

Researchers have solved a 60-year-old mystery by identifying a gene that can cause rejection, kidney failure and even death in some blood transfusion patients. In this study, published in Nature Genetics online ...

Genetics created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover elusive platelet count and limb development gene

Researchers have identified an elusive gene responsible for Thrombocytopenia with Absent Radii (TAR), a rare inherited blood and skeletal disorder. As a result, this research is now being transformed into ...

Genetics created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New insights into how genes turn on and off

Researchers at UC Davis and the University of British Columbia have shed new light on methylation, a critical process that helps control how genes are expressed. Working with placentas, the team discovered that 37 percent ...

Genetics created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene identified in increasing pancreatic cancer risk

Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Cancer created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children's brain processing speed indicates risk of psychosis

(Medical Xpress)—New research from Cardiff and Bristol universities shows that children whose brains process information more slowly than their peers are at greater risk of psychotic experiences.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research discovers likely basis of birth defect causing premature skull closure in infants

An international team of geneticists, pediatricians, surgeons and epidemiologists from 23 institutions across three continents has identified two areas of the human genome associated with the most common ...

Genetics created Nov 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Informatics approach helps doctors, patients make sense of genome data

The cost of sequencing the entire human genome, or exome – the regions of the genome that are translated into proteins that affect cell behavior – has decreased significantly, to the point where the cost of looking at ...

Genetics created Sep 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genomics may help ID organisms in outbreaks of serious infectious disease

Researchers have been able to reconstruct the genome sequence of an outbreak strain of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) using metagenomics (the direct sequencing of DNA extracted from microbiologically complex sample ...

Genetics created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Whole genome sequencing better at tracing TB outbreaks than standard test

A new form of genetic testing of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis can provide better information on TB transmission and also trace TB outbreaks more accurately than the current standard test, according to a study from ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists engineer the Schmallenberg virus genome to understand how to reduce disease caused by the virus

Researchers from the MRC Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have developed methods to synthesize and change the genome of Schmallenberg virus (SBV). SBV is a recently discovered pathogen of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First large scale trial of whole-genome cancer testing for clinical decision-making reported

For the first time, researchers have conducted a large trial in which they tested the entire genome of individual breast cancers to help personalize treatment. They released their findings at the ESMO 2012 Congress of the ...

Cancer created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Counting copy numbers characterises prostate cancer

Non-invasive 'liquid biopsies' can find metastatic or recurrent prostate cancer, in a low cost assay suitable for most healthcare systems, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine. Genomi ...

Cancer created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prenatal whole genome sequencing: Just because we can, should we?

With whole genome sequencing quickly becoming more affordable and accessible, we need to pay more attention to the massive amount of information it will deliver to parents – and the fact that we don't yet understand ...

Genetics created Aug 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring genomic response to infection leads to earlier, accurate diagnoses

Duke researchers are looking to genomic technologies – not the isolation of bacteria or viruses – to quickly detect and diagnose infectious diseases such as the flu and staph.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0