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New Approach Identifies Candidate Causal Variants for Neuropsychiatric, Neurodevelopmental Conditions
Combining eQTL and GWAS results, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai detected hundreds of candidate causal variants for various brain traits.
In Brief This Week: Pathogenomix, Uniogen, Genetic Technologies, DnaNudge, Gravity Diagnostics, More
News items for the week of Jan. 17, 2022.
NIH Earmarks $170M for All of Us Program's Personalized Nutrition Study
The project will use genomic and other health data from All of Us Research Program participants to study factors that can inform personalized nutrition recommendations.
Taiwanese Firm's IP Asserted in Suit Against Pacific Biosciences Found Partially Unpatentable
This week, the US PTAB found that some claims of a Personal Genomics patent for single-molecule detection didn't hold up, while others remain valid.
In Ongoing False Advertising Suit, Judge Allows Natera Counterclaims Against Guardant Health
A federal judge denied four motions by Guardant but granted four others by the company.
Centogene Strikes Rare Disease Target Discovery Deal With Insilico Medicine
The companies aim to identify therapeutic targets for Niemann-Pick disease type C, a rare genetic lysosomal storage disorder.
Dilated Cardiomyopathy Gene Mutations Point to Possible Therapeutic Strategy
Homozygous loss-of-function mutations in the BAG5 gene turned up in a subset of inherited DCM patients, and BAG5 appeared amenable to gene therapy in mouse models.
Ginkgo Bioworks Acquires Massachusetts COVID-19 Testing Firm
Project Beacon COVID-19 was started by F-Prime Capital, GV, and the Broad Institute to help implement COVID-19 testing in Massachusetts and its environs.