DNA tests for patients move closer with genome analysis advance
Diseases caused by genetic changes could be detected more readily thanks to an advance in DNA analysis software.
May 30, 2019
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Diseases caused by genetic changes could be detected more readily thanks to an advance in DNA analysis software.
May 30, 2019
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Newborn screening is required in the U.S. and differs slightly depending on which state you live in. For the most part, it's done before a newborn baby leaves the hospital and includes a blood test that screens for 30-50 ...
May 24, 2019
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In a perspective published today in the journal Cell, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveal that genomic data extracted from population biobanks across the globe contain much less ethnic diversity ...
Mar 21, 2019
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A new kind of prenatal genetic testing can improve obstetricians' ability to diagnose the underlying causes of fetal anomalies found during prenatal ultrasounds. But the results require expert interpretation, according to ...
Jan 31, 2019
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Programs supported by the National Institutes of Health are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human disease, enabling their use in genomic medicine and research. NIH's Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) ...
Oct 12, 2018
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A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed a modeling system that integrates genomic and temporal information to infer causal relationships between genes, ...
Oct 10, 2018
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Evie Walker sits on Alison's lap, playing a game she never grows tired of: turning her mum's hand over and over, stroking and examining it. When she takes a break and looks around, it is with the open-mouthed look of curiosity ...
Sep 18, 2018
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Children who are born severely ill or who develop serious illness in the first few weeks of life are often difficult to diagnose, with considerable implications for their short and longer-term care. Whole genome sequencing ...
Jun 18, 2018
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A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association summarizes the state-of-the-science of genomic medicine—the study of the health effects of the molecular interactions of a person's unique genes—for studying ...
May 29, 2018
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Analysis of the inflammation-promoting proteins in the blood of patients with type 1 diabetes and related kidney disease indicates that the promoters of inflammation are diverse even in the same medical condition and that ...
Mar 8, 2018
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