A person's risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don't code for proteins, previously dismissed as 'junk DNA', according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer ...
Dec 6, 2019
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The first-ever published whole-genome sequences of not just one, but two supercentenarians, aged more than 114 years, reveal that both unusual and common genetic phenomena contribute to the genetic background of extreme human ...
Jan 3, 2012
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A team of researchers at Stanford University has found a significant subset of allele-independent regulatory sites that have multiple causal variants in linkage disequilibrium. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health discovered that reactivation of ancient viral genes embedded in the human genome may cause the destruction of neurons in some forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The ...
Sep 30, 2015
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Most people understand genes to be specific segments of DNA that determine traits or diseases that are inherited. Textbooks suggest that genes are copied ("transcribed") into RNA molecules, which are then used as templates ...
Sep 5, 2012
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The United States is in danger of losing its biomedical edge to countries that are aggressively funding research into personalized medicine.
Sep 5, 2014
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Seven years ago, the 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) published an open-access resource based primarily on low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations representing five continental ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Despite efforts to include more diversity in research, people of European ancestry continue to be vastly overrepresented and ethnically diverse populations largely excluded from human genomics research, according to the authors ...
Mar 21, 2019
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Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic "blueprint" of human life, an international research team, including the University of British Columbia's Chris Overall, has now mapped the first draft sequence ...
Oct 19, 2020
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Growing insights about a significant, yet poorly understood, part of the genome - the "dark matter of DNA"—have fundamentally changed the way scientists approach the study of diseases. The human genome contains about 20,000 ...
Oct 12, 2015
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