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A new field for medicine: Genetic risk intervention

Impact: Major Disease Cures    September 1, 2010
If you’ve heard anything about personal genome testing, it’s that such tests can sometimes reveal people are carriers of genetic mutations that increase the risk of certain diseases. There are many examples with more added each year, such as the BRCA1/BRCA2 genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. If you’re a woman whose genome has [...]
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The growing GWAS controversy

Impact: DNA Decoding    May 3, 2010
There’s nothing like ignorance to fuel a controversy, even if it’s scientific ignorance. A controversy is brewing over the idea of personalized medicine based on the analysis of an individual’s genome through genome-wide association studies, or GWAS. Enabled by the ever decreasing cost of analyzing the human genome, some scientists believe it is possible to [...]
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Surprise verdict in U.S. gene patent case

Impact: DNA Decoding    March 30, 2010
Most people think they own their DNA – “My genes, my body.” Well of course you do. Except when it comes to analyzing those genes. Right now companies own patents on about 2,000 of your genes. Typically they make equipment and/or procedures to analyze them. So far, this is legal in the United States, which [...]
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