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Gene variants for living to 100 identified
Under the heading, “Research Ripe for Over-interpretation” a team of scientists from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Center have published in the July 1, 2010 issue of the journal Science a paper identifying a suite of gene variants that can be used to predict whether people can [...]
Posted in News: Extending Lifespan Also tagged centenarians, DNA, genome wide association, gerontology, old-age, prediction, SNPs Leave a comment
The Human Genome Project: Ten years later
Ten year retrospectives are a popular form of gazing at near history. So it is with looking at the results of the first complete sequencing of the human genome (first draft released June 26, 2000). The Human Genome Project was a three billion dollar multi-year program that finally achieved the long sought genome-wide catalog of [...]
Posted in Impact: DNA Decoding Also tagged DNA, genetics, genome, Human Genome Project, major disease cures, medicine, RNA, SNP Leave a comment
The growing GWAS controversy
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 [...]
Posted in Impact: DNA Decoding Also tagged BRCA1, DNA, gene, genetics, genome, genome-wide association studies, molecular genetics, mutation, personalized medicine Comments closed
Common diseases: Rare gene mutations are important
Recall seeing a headline like this: “Gene discovered that causes cancer”? Over the past decade or so such headlines have been frequent. The advent of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), looking through the whole human genome to find variant genes, has uncovered literally thousands of relationships between common gene mutations and various forms of cancer and [...]
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Update: Research on ‘old-age genes’ challenged