Medical Genetics News

For the first time, researchers have used whole-genome sequencing to track down disease genes in people who have rare inherited disorders.

What started out as a final project for a medical genetics class evolved into an elaborate event that brought many together to celebrate with good company and great food.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is one of many serious disorders for which prenatal testing is available.

BMC Medical Genetics , Vol. 10, No. 1. , 6. Abstract BACKGROUND:The number of genome-wide association studies is growing rapidly leading to the discovery and replication of many new disease loci.

Tags Ethical, legal, and practical concerns about recontacting patients to inform them of new information: the case in medical genetics.

Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis often occur in families with no known risk for them.

Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis often occur in families with no known risk of them.

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Chicago, researchers will unveil findings that show that it is not cost effective to screen for spinal muscular atrophy.

Newborns in California are not routinely screened for Pompe Disease. Bay Area researchers believe they should be.

Applications Due January 29, 2010 BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American College of Medical Genetics Foundation/ACMGF and Genzyme Corporation have announced that applications are now being accepted for the 5th Annual ACMGF/Genzyme 2010 Clinical Genetics Fellowship in Biochemical Genetics.

A canine chromosome 7 locus that confers a high risk of compulsive disorder susceptibility has been identified through a collaboration between the Behavior Service at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the Program in Medical Genetics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Recent studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia and their family members are interested in genetic counseling, but few have received this service.

The largest and longest running study of children born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening has shown that embryo biopsy does not adversely affect the health of babies born as the result of a subsequent singleton pregnancy.

Geneticist Charles Epstein, of Tiburon, was elected to chair the board of trustees of the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato.

The American College of Medical Genetics has a long-standing position that genes are products of nature, and as such should not be patentable.

Medland et al . . Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans.

Doha: Under the title of 'Advances in Medical Genetics', the second Qatar Genetics Symposium participants have discussed prevalence of genetic diseases in the Middle East and strategies for their treatment and prevention.

Hamad Medical Corporation will host second Qatar genetic symposium, "Advances in medical genetics" at the Hajar auditorium on October 31.

CAN personal genomics lead to major scientific discoveries? Using online questionnaires filled in by its customers, genome-scanning firm 23andMe has identified new genetic variants associated with curly hair, the inability to smell asparagus in one's own urine and the bizarre reflex that causes some to sneeze in bright light .

It's been an intensive week of genomics here at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting , and I haven't been able to grab time to blog as much as I'd have liked.