New website reveals genetic links between diseases
Got asthma? Then you might also go on to get Parkinson’s. Celiac? You’ll want to watch out for…
My daughter’s health was a mystery. The answer was on the other side of the world | Well actually
Right after my daughter, Maggie, was born in 2012, she held her hands clasped together against her chest.…
Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes
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Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome | ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists have found the first robust evidence that people’s genes affect their chances of developing myalgic encephalomyelitis or…
Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering
Yairi, E. & Ambrose, N. Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances. J. Fluen. Disord. 38, 66–87 (2013). Google…
Researchers can accurately tell someone’s age using AI and just a bit of DNA
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a…
These Genetic Insights Into Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Help Design Better Treatments
Newswise — People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, let…
Autoimmune Disease Risk Linked to mRNA Instability
Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / Getty Images / Science Photo Library Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles…
Whole-exome sequencing analysis identifies risk genes for schizophrenia
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The Platinum Pedigree: a long-read benchmark for genetic variants
Gonzaga-Jauregui, C., Lupski, J. R. & Gibbs, R. A. Human genome sequencing in health and disease. Annu. Rev.…
Meet the Uzbek scientist pioneering genetic breakthroughs in cotton, wheat and global food security
By Dilbar Primova Published on 02/09/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2 •Updated 15:13 ADVERTISEMENT Uzbekistan’s Minister of Agriculture, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, has…
Tracing the evolution of sequencing into the era of genomic medicine
Sanger, F., Nicklen, S. & Coulson, A. R. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA…