Newlywed's satisfaction may be linked to a genetic variant
Psychologists have found a genetic variant associated with relationship satisfaction in the first years of marriage...
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SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism)
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.
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Event Review: The Genetics of Mental Health — Episode one
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...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Junk DNA may affect cancer risk
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...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Study suggests 'gene drain' from Britain's industrial areas
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...
Podcast Review: The Dangers of DIY Genetic Testing (Science Weekly, The Guardian)
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...
NHS 'genomic volunteers' won't be expected to pay for genome sequencing
Two new government publications reveal that plans to charge healthy volunteers for NHS genome sequencing have been scrapped...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Experts speak out on direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Geneticists in the UK have been speaking out against direct-to-consumer DNA testing after concerns over false positive results...
What can healthy individuals learn from getting their genomes sequenced?
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the identification of rare and common genetic variants associated with disease, advances made possible through ever cheaper and faster genome sequencing technologies...
Genetic patterns linked to time in education discovered
Genetic variants may influence how long people remain in school, according to a study of over 1 million genomes...
Twenty-seven genes that suppress cancer discovered
Scientists have found 27 new tumour suppressor genes...