A government-funded project to collect DNA samples and medical records from 500,000 British volunteers aged 45-69, to study the effects of genetic and environmental factors on health.
UK Biobank is to introduce new data safeguards, after UK health data that it holds was found for sale on a Chinese ecommerce website...
What if personalised medicine – designed to be more precise – actually ends up being less fair, asks Dr Tsveti Stoilova...
Twenty-two genes associated with the risk of developing chronic conditions following a viral infection have been identified...
The discovery of new associations between genes and obesity has highlighted the importance of including individuals of non-European ancestry in genetic studies...
A gene variant has been shown to have different effects on patients based on their genetic sex...
This PET event explored the impact and interplay of three major UK-based genomics and population health research initiatives. This is the first of three in a series of events exploring large-scale biomedical databases and research resources...
Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, comments on the recent findings published in Nature Medicine aiming to quantify the contributions of genetics and environmental factors in ageing and mortality...
Male fetuses and adult sons of women who smoke while pregnant exhibit more changes in gene expression than females...
Environmental factors could be more influential in health and premature death than our genes, according to a new study...
Single-nucleotide differences in a DNA sequence that are associated with an inherited cancer risk have been identified through a large-scale screening study...
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