This Week in Nature

Jul 28, 2016

In this week's Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the Brown University School of Public health report a genetic variant that increases the risk of obesity in Samoans, providing new insights into the genetics of a population with the highest prevalence of obesity in the world.

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The Scan

Push for Predictive Genetic Tests

Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, is calling for the swift rollout of predictive genetic tests, the Guardian reports.

Gene-Editing Registry Proposed

A WHO panel is calling for a global registry of human germline gene-editing projects, according to Stat News.

Sneaking Out of the Lab

Vox writes that lab mishaps involving pathogens are quite common.

This Week in Genome Biology

In Genome Biology this week: analysis of wild and cultivated peach genomes, Hi-C-based pipeline for assembling microbial genomes from metagenomic data, and more.

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