SNPwatch: Inherited Genetic Variation May Predispose People For Blood...
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may...
View ArticleIntroducing a Do-It-Yourself Revolution in Disease Research
There’s a high likelihood that a disease of some sort affects you or one of your relatives — every family seems to have ripples in its gene pool that define and shape its health dynamics. Your family...
View ArticleSNPwatch: Genetic Variants Associated With Risk Of Childhood Acute...
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may...
View ArticleVery Personalized Medicine: Sequencing of Second Cancer Patient Reveals...
A new genetic screening process has helped researchers understand the genetic causes of cancer, such as how mutations accumulated in a person’s life can cause leukemia. The study shows that by...
View ArticleSNPwatch: New Genetic Associations Revealed for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) arises in the upper part of the throat, behind the nose. It is rare in most areas of the world—affecting only about 1 in every 100,000 people—but about 25 times more...
View ArticleMore than 100 Genetic Variations Associated with Leukemia Treatment Response
Treatment advances have dramatically increased the cure rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common diagnosed cancer in children, from less than 10% in the 1960’s to more than 80%....
View ArticleSNPwatch: Inherited Genetic Variation May Predispose People For Blood...
Editor’s note: This post has been edited from its original to reflect changes in 23andMe’s product. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Stem cells in your bone marrow are responsible for...
View ArticleIntroducing a Do-It-Yourself Revolution in Disease Research
There’s a high likelihood that a disease of some sort affects you or one of your relatives – every family seems to have ripples in its gene pool that define and shape its health dynamics. Your family...
View ArticleSNPwatch: Genetic Variants Associated With Risk Of Childhood Acute...
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may...
View ArticleVery Personalized Medicine: Sequencing of Second Cancer Patient Reveals...
A new genetic screening process has helped researchers understand the genetic causes of cancer, such as how mutations accumulated in a person’s life can cause leukemia. The study shows that by...
View ArticleSNPwatch: New Genetic Associations Revealed for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) arises in the upper part of the throat, behind the nose. It is rare in most areas of the world–affecting only about 1 in every 100,000 people–but about 25 times more...
View ArticleSNPwatch: Researchers Find First SNPs Linked To Common Type of Leukemia
Researchers have added chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of leukemia in western countries, to the long list of diseases that have been associated with common genetic variants....
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