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Widespread Cardiovascular MDx and PGx Still Awaiting 'Prime Time'
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Despite sustained interest among researchers and diagnostics developers in advancing molecular tests to personalize cardiovascular care, integration of such tools into clinical practice is happening slowly where at all.

Spartan Bioscience Building Evidence for Point-of-Care PGx Testing to Guide Antiplatelet Therapy
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Originally published March 12.

Roche, ACC Start Biomarker Web Portal

The company will work with the American College of Cardiology to create a clinical resource on the web for peer-reviewed biomarker information.

UPDATE: Warfarin Genetic Testing Decreases Hospitalization Rate, Study Finds

Research presented at the American College of Cardiology scientific session in Atlanta today suggests individuals who receive genetic testing early in their warfarin treatment are up to 31 percent less likely to be hospitalized than those who don't.
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Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.