An SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) is a single chemical unit (base pair) variation in a stretch of DNA, present in more than 1% of the population. A common SNP is estimated to occur 1 in every 1000 base pairs between any two people.
A CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease is one step closer to approval after an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration met to review its safety...
Key gene variants linked to running success have been identified in a small study on previously untrained participants...
The first 200,000 whole genomes to be sequenced as part of the UK Biobank project have been made widely available to researchers...
A gene variant has been identified that is linked to the development of both Alzheimer's and severe COVID-19, new research has found...
Psychologists have found a genetic variant associated with relationship satisfaction in the first years of marriage...
We get a great deal of mileage out of the terms 'nature' and 'nurture', even though thinking about evolution, human beings, and life using these supposedly distinct and mutually exclusive labels is surely a gross simplification...
Scientists have found that genetic variation in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins, previously characterised as 'junk DNA', may affect a person's risk to develop a form of inherited cancer...
A new study suggests a 'gene drain' linked to social migration in Great Britain, where people with a genetic predisposition for higher educational attainment are more likely to leave former industrial regions and live in wealthier areas...
By 2022 the world's consumer genetic testing market is expected to quadruple to £200 million, according to The Guardian. But while the popularity of DIY genetic testing has undergone huge expansion in recent years, doctors and scientists have called for a crackdown on tests offered by consumer genetics companies such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA...
Two new government publications reveal that plans to charge healthy volunteers for NHS genome sequencing have been scrapped...
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