Northwestern University
Broad Institute and Northwestern University researchers are encouraging others to examine noncoding genes, when investigating undiagnosed rare diseases.
Individuals at enhanced polygenic risk of high systolic blood pressure had increased treatment resistance risk and less pronounced response to chlorthalidone in a new study.
Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Projects Focused on Decreasing Cancer Burden in Africa
Programs aim to improve screening tools and adherence, advance new point-of-care diagnostics, and increase access to precision medicine on the continent.
Uterine Fibroid Study Digs Into Heritable Risk, Relevant Cell Types With Integrated Omics
By incorporating expression, epigenetic, and chromatin architecture findings, researchers uncovered the effects of heritable risk variants.
Vegetarian Diet GWAS Leads to Related Genetic Loci, Genes
Researchers used UK Biobank data to track down genetic variants with significant or tenuous ties to vegetarianism, along with related brain- or lipid metabolism-related genes.