Conducting studies on Latina and African-American women produces population-specific insights on the genetics of the disease that aren't possible to glean in European-heavy GWAS.
The company is hoping that consumers will use its platform to manage their health data, to participate in research, and to learn about their own and their family's health risks.
The researchers found that the expression of certain genes was better at helping them predict when Ebola would develop than indications of infection like fever.
Newly launched aggregator Seqster will help Boston University researchers collect data from EHRs, wearables, and gene tests to identify concussion biomarkers.
Six microRNAs appeared to be present at enhanced levels in cerebrospinal fluid from symptom-free individuals with characteristic Huntington disease gene expansions.
Eleven new studies from the NHLBI NextGen Consortium show different uses for iPSCs to study polygenetic diseases across various systems in the human body.
The investigators will conduct a longitudinal study of former athletes with high and medium exposure to repetitive head trauma, including former NFL players.
In PLOS this week: genetic factors influencing inorganic arsenic metabolism and toxicity, a germline variant in the cell adhesion molecule-coding gene DSCAM, and more.
