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Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
Daniel also blogs about personal genomics at Genomes Unzipped.
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Category: cshl
The main message of the cancer genomics session at the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting: vast amounts of sequence data is on the way, but we're still not equipped to take full advantage of the information it contains.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:30 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: disease genetics
A paper published online today in Science illustrates the power of modern genomic technologies for finding cancer susceptibility mutations - but also shows just how difficult it will be to find disease variants amidst the noise of normal genetic variation.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:44 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Steve Murphy is up in arms about a recent email from 23andMe to its customers advertising the use of genetic variants on its V2 chip to predict individual risk of statin-induced myopathy and breast cancer.Of course, Steve does have a...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 10:40 AM • 32 Comments •
Category: cancer
Over at PolITiGenomics, Washington University's David Dooling discusses his work as part of the Tumor Sequencing Project. The TSP and a variety of other groups (like The Cancer Genome Atlas) are using large-scale sequencing to create comprehensive maps of the...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:05 AM • •
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