Connection Between Epigenome, Selective Mutability, Evolution, and Human Disease
Li, Harris et al., PLoS Genetics
Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere propose a "connection between the epigenome, selective mutability, evolution, and human disease" based on the findings of their study on associations of structural mutability with germline DNA methylation and with non-allelic homologous recombination mediated by low-copy repeats. "Combined evidence from four human sperm methylome maps, human genome evolution, structural polymorphisms in the human population, and previous genomic and disease studies consistently points to a strong association of germline hypomethylation and genomic instability," the Baylor-led team writes.
NJ's Accurate Diagnostic Laboratory Seeking New Medical Director
Accurate Diagnostic Laboratory is currently seeking to hire a medical director for its Edison, NJ, headquarters, and its impending South Plainfield facility.
Founded in 1999, ADL provides biochemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, molecular diagnostics, and genetic-testing services. It operates eight labs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that serve more than 300,000 patients annually for over 500 physicians in New Jersey.
Candidates, which should be either MDs or Doctors of Medicine, "must be certified in clinical and anatomic pathology." They "must" also hold American Board Certification, have experience with the CAP program as well as New York's CLEP and New Jersey's CLIS programs, and have at least 5 years experience as a lab medical director or other management chops.
The new director will also help ADL to open a cytology and histology lab and a hematopathology genetics lab, and would oversee "additional laboratories as continued acquisitions occur."
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