The Shenzhen Mammoth Public Welfare Foundation, which BGI sponsors, has also raised funding to purchase PCR and automate sample preparation instruments.
With data from UK Biobank participants, investigators identified dozens of snoring-related genetic loci and links to traits such as weight, smoking, and sleep apnea.
The commission plans to bar Bio-Rad from importing certain single-cell products, potentially including the ddSeq Single-Cell Isolator and ddSeq cartridges.
The test detects methylation status at 31 sites and is used to determine elevated risk for esophageal dysplasia due to chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease.
A high genetic risk score was associated with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in both a US and a Danish cohort of women with gestational diabetes.
A large genome-wide association study that included more than 400,000 UK Biobank participants led to 69 new or known loci associated with 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
The high-throughput S2000 sequencer is the second instrument Genetron Health has received NMPA approval for, following the S5 benchtop instrument last year.
Foundation Medicine's liquid biopsy test will be used in the third stage of SCRUM-Japan, which focuses on advanced cancer patientsin Japan and other Asian countries.
The project, the first under a partnership between the university and Illumina announced last year, will apply whole-genome sequencing to challenging cancers types.
The findings suggest that the ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a hominin population that split from the modern human lineage before Neanderthals did.
Investigators tracked down a methylation signature in blood that corresponded with features found in postmortem brain samples from schizophrenia cases.
The Economist reports that it is increasingly easier to analyze the metabolites people give off, potentially revealing personal information about them.
