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Jan 19, 2021

Blood, Urine Biomarker Study Leads to Linked Loci, Disease-Related Risk Scores

By uncovering genetic factors behind blood and urine biomarkers, researchers came up with polygenic scores related to biomarker status and related disease risk.

Jan 19, 2021

ABO Histo-Blood Groups Influence Makeup of Gut Microbiome, New Study Finds

The findings further suggested the gut microbiome could influence conditions like inflammatory bowel disease and serve as therapeutic targets.

Jan 15, 2021

Science Papers Examine Chronic Kidney Disease GWAS, Pneumonia Microbiome

In Science this week: analysis of genome-wide association studies of chronic kidney disease, and more.

Jan 12, 2021

Genetic Analyses of Behavioral Traits May Be Biased Due to Misreporting, Changes in Behavior

The researchers developed an approach to mitigate the effects of misreporting or longitudinal changes in drinking behavior.

Jan 06, 2021

Genome Biology Papers on Pediatric Bone Accrual, Pancreatic Cancer Metastases, Urothelial Carcinoma

In Genome Biology this week: loci linked to longitudinal pediatric bone accrual, role of complement cascade gene in pancreatic cancer metastases, and more.

Dec 11, 2020

Genetic Loci Linked to Risk of Rare Takayasu Arteritis Hint at Related Traits

In a genome-wide association study of Takayasu arteritis, researchers uncovered disease-linked loci both within and beyond the HLA region.

Dec 11, 2020

COVID-19 GWAS Leads to Immune Genes Linked to Severe Disease, Treatment Targets

Researchers identified several immune-related genes in a GWAS that included more than 2,200 COVID-19 patients treated in UK intensive care units.

Dec 07, 2020

Hundreds of Genetic Loci Influence Shape of the Human Face

The study, which focused on Europeans, also highlighted a role for enhancers during embryonic development in determining facial features.

Nov 30, 2020

PLOS Papers on Glioblastoma in Lebanon, Syndromic Gene PheWAS, Newborn Cytokine GWAS

In PLOS this week: somatic mutation patterns of glioblastomas among Lebanese patients, phenome-wide study using UK Biobank data, and more.

Nov 23, 2020

Rare Variant Study Suggests Blood Pressure Traits May Have Ties to Development, Heart Conditions

Exome array-wide association and rare variant-focused genome-wide association meta-analyses led to 87 rare variants with ties to one or more blood pressure traits.

Breaking News

The Scan

P.1 Re-infection Concerns

New analyses indicate the P.1 variant found in Brazil may be able to infect people who have already had COVID-19, the New York Times reports.

Aiming for May

According to CNBC, Novavax's CEO says its vaccine could be authorized in the US as early as May.

NIH Program to Address Structural Racism

The US National Institutes of Health has a new initiative to address structural racism in biomedical research.

PNAS Papers on Myelopathy GWAS in Japan, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, MRSA Methylation

In PNAS this week: GWAS of TLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis, analysis of twins with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and more.

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