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Dec 30, 2014

Study Sees Year-of-Birth Influence Over Obesity Risk Variant Association

An analysis in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the association between obesity and an FTO gene variant became increasingly significant in the past several decades.

Dec 03, 2014

Personalized Medicine Firm Newtopia Garners Investment from Bloom Burton

With this support, Newtopia hopes to grow its business focused on urging employees to make lifestyle changes based on genetic testing and coaching.

Oct 23, 2014

Genomics in the Journals: Oct 23, 2014

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In Nature Genetics, the University of Washington's Evan Eichler and colleagues from the US and Italy explored molecular mechanisms that can cause the genetic instability

Aug 26, 2014

University of Nebraska Gets $11.3M NIH Grant for Obesity Research Center

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received an $11.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a research center focused on obesity.

Jul 08, 2014

Gene Co-variance Approach Shows Promise for Identifying, Assembling Microbial Genomes from Metagenomic Sequences

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team that includes members of the "Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract," or MetaHIT, consortium has come up with a new method for putting together microbial genomes and identifying species from metagenomic sequence data.

Jun 17, 2014

Enterome Teams with Mayo Clinic on Gut Microbiome Tests

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Enterome Bioscience today said that it has signed an agreement with the Mayo Clinic to collaborate on the discovery and validation of microbiome-based tests for predicting response to medical nutritional intervention in obese and overweight patients.

May 21, 2014

Study Examines Interaction of Genetic, Lifestyle Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Both genetic and lifestyle factors influence a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but a new study appearing in PLOS Medicine suggests that the ab

May 15, 2014

Linkage Analysis, Exome Sequencing Uncover Novel Variants Associated with Metabolic Syndrome

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Through both linkage analysis and whole-exome sequencing, an international team of researchers has linked mutations in the protein kinase DYRK1B gene to metabolic syndrome.

Mar 31, 2014

Copy-Number Level of Amylase Gene Linked to Obesity Risk

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Researchers have linked low copy-number levels of the salivary amylase gene to obesity risk, a finding they reported in Nature Genetics yesterday.

Mar 13, 2014

Genomics in the Journals: 2014.03.13

While variants in the gene FTO have previously been associated with a propensity toward obesity, the University of Chicago's Marcelo Nóbrega and colleagues reported in Nature this week that those obesity-linked variants in FTO actually

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The Scan

Areas of Limited Testing

The Wall Street Journal reports on gaps in COVID-19 testing affecting less affluent urban areas and rural locations.

Clouded 'Crystal Ball'

According to NBC News, new SARS-CoV-2 variants are making it harder for researchers to model the course of the pandemic.

Million a Day

The New York Times reports that experts say President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 1 million people a day in the US in the next 100 days is too low a bar.

Science Papers Trace Drivers of Metastasis; Genetic Analysis of Stone, Bronze Age Eastern Europeans

In Science this week: single-cell lineage tracing technique applied to study lung cancer metastasis, and more.

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