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Wednesday, 13 November 2024
New research has found that people with a genetic defect in…
Study links genetic variants to increased risk of heart failure
Pankaj Arora, M.D., and Garima Arora, M.D., recently published a study that shows carriers of specific genetic variants…
Genetic Variants in FCGR3A Tied to GBS Severity
Photo Credit: iStock.com/CreVis2 FCGR3A duplications may worsen Guillain-Barré syndrome in cases linked to C. jejuni. A study published…
Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes
The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence of 164…
Violent experiences alter the genome in ways that persist for generations
Violence and trauma leave inheritable markers on a person’s genome that persist over multiple generations, according to a…
Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome in cancer and T cells impacts outcome
TCGA data acquisition and processing In this study, we used bulk RNA-seq, WES somatic mutation data, and clinical…
Incorporating genetic data improves target trial emulations and informs the use of polygenic scores in randomized controlled trial design
Ethics statement This study complies with all relevant ethical regulations and was conducted in accordance with the research…
NHS plans to DNA test all babies in England to assess disease risk
The government’s 10-year plan for the NHS, which is set to be revealed over the coming few weeks,…
UK scientists to synthesise human genome to learn more about how DNA works | Genetics
Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch to learn more about…
The NHS plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick
By 2030, every baby born in England could have their entire genome sequenced under a new NHS initiative…
The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA Tim H. H. Coorens, Boxun Zhao, Adam Voshall, Kristin G. Ardlie, Bradley E.…
Targeted in vivo gene integration of a secretion-enabled GLP-1 receptor agonist reverses diet-induced non-genetic obesity and pre-diabetes
Plasmid construction The Exe4 gene was codon-optimized using the GeneSmart codon optimization tool (https://www.genscript.com/gensmart-free-gene-codon-optimization.html) based on the amino…