A relatively common (present in more than 1% of the population) alternative version of a DNA sequence. Some variants are associated with particular traits and disorders, but many have no observable effect on appearance or health.
An at-home spit test to identify patients at risk of prostate cancer, using a polygenic risk score, has been shown to outperform current testing methods...
'Established in 2007, in a gale of publicity, 23andMe benefitted from the valetudinarian personal genetic healthcare imaginary that appeared in the wake of the Human Genome Project,' writes Dr Pete Mills, as he documents the rise and fall of 23andMe...
A genome editing approach has been used to correct a disease-causing genetic variation
in people, for the first time...
Male fetuses and adult sons of women who smoke while pregnant exhibit more changes in gene expression than females...
Researchers have identified multiple genes that influence obesity in both humans and labrador retrievers, providing new insights into the genetic basis of weight gain...
The British health insurance and healthcare company Bupa plans to offer an approach to people's genomic data that, it is claimed, can evaluate an individual's risk of developing seven common diseases...
A child who was treated in utero for spinal muscular atrophy is showing no signs of the condition over two years later...
A detailed map of the human brain region known as the hypothalamus has been created using advanced genetic techniques...
A novel gene insertion therapy may be able to cure infants of a rare genetic liver disease...
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