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Gene variants may determine lung function and susceptibility to maternal smoking
on Mar 25, 2009 in author California Carrie Breton Entertainment genotyping University of Southern California A tiny variation within a single gene can determine not only how quickly and well lungs grow and function in children and adolescents, but how susceptible those children will be to exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, even in utero, according to re...
Illumina Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Affymetrix
on May 5, 2009 in Uncategorized billions gene expression genetic tests genomics genotyping medical information molecular diagnostics obligation pharmaceutical companies proprietary technologies Story Summary:…Using our proprietary technologies, we provide a comprehensive line of products and services that currently serve the sequencing, genotyping, and gene expression markets, and we expect to enter the market for molecular diagnostic...
Haplotype specific-sequencing reveals MBL2 association with asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infection - 7thSpace Interactive
on May 11, 2009 in Uncategorized asymptomatic adults diversity exon genotyping nucleotide polymorphisms populations Story Summary:…Results: Fourteen polymorphisms were identified beside the commonly investigated promoter (H,L; X,Y; P,Q) and exon 1 (A,O; O = B, C or D) variants….The associations were specific to LYPA (identical to the reference sequence...
Illumina Introduces the Infinium(r) HD HumanOmni1-Quad BeadChip
on May 17, 2009 in Uncategorized billions clinical research drug discovery gene expression genetic tests genetic variation genotyping jay flatley medical information proprietary technologies Story Summary:…For researchers performing whole-genome SNP and CNV studies, the HumanOmni1-Quad BeadChip provides the fastest and most cost-efficient tool for finding meaningful disease-associations, said Jay Flatley, CEO and president of Illum...
Disclosing genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease does not cause psychological distress
on Jul 15, 2009 in 23andMe Alzheimer's disease Boston Boston University Case Western Reserve University Cornell deCODEme depression Duke University Entertainment genotype genotyping Harvard Human Genome Michigan Navigenics New England Journal Robert C. Green the New England Journal of Medicine the University of Michigan (Boston) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that disclosing genetic risk information to adult children of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) who request this information does not result in significant shor...