Getting even with the odds ratio
In the recent report from the US Government Accountability Office on direct-to-consumer genetic tests, much was made of the fact that risk predictions from DTC genetic tests may not be applicable to...
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Friday Links
The largest genome-wide association study ever undertaken was published in Nature this week. The appropriately named Genetic Investigation of ANthropocentric Traits (GIANT) consortium combined data...
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We’ve been pretty quiet here at Genomes Unzipped for the last couple of weeks, while many of us prepared for and attended the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Washington DC last week. The...
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Friday Links
A quick note about the Reader Survey; we are going to stop taking responses at the end of Saturday (Pacific Time). If you haven’t already done so, please fill out the survey now. A couple of...
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Are synthetic associations a man-made phenomenon?
Early last year David Goldstein and colleagues published a provocative paper claiming that many GWAS associations are driven not by common variants of modest effect (the canonical common disease –...
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People Have A Right To Access Their Own Genetic Information
This week has seen another FDA meeting seeking guidance on how to regulate direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests in the US. The meeting itself has been covered by GNZ bloggers Daniel at Genetic Future...
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At odds with disease risk estimates
It's all a game of Risk!The first thing I did when I received my genotyping results from 23andMe was log on to their website and take a look at my estimated disease risks. For most people, these...
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‘Disguised’ heritability, changes ahead to marketing of personal genomics,...
Even though genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many loci associated with complex disease, much disease heritability is still unexplained, or “missing”. But what if rather than being...
View ArticleGetting even with the odds ratio
In the recent report from the US Government Accountability Office on direct-to-consumer genetic tests, much was made of the fact that risk predictions from DTC genetic tests may not be applicable to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Links
The largest genome-wide association study ever undertaken was published in Nature this week. The appropriately named Genetic Investigation of ANthropocentric Traits (GIANT) consortium combined data...
View ArticleFriday Links
We’ve been pretty quiet here at Genomes Unzipped for the last couple of weeks, while many of us prepared for and attended the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Washington DC last week. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Links
A quick note about the Reader Survey; we are going to stop taking responses at the end of Saturday (Pacific Time). If you haven’t already done so, please fill out the survey now. A couple of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are synthetic associations a man-made phenomenon?
Early last year David Goldstein and colleagues published a provocative paper claiming that many GWAS associations are driven not by common variants of modest effect (the canonical common disease –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People Have A Right To Access Their Own Genetic Information
This week has seen another FDA meeting seeking guidance on how to regulate direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests in the US. The meeting itself has been covered by GNZ bloggers Daniel at Genetic Future...
View ArticleClik here to view.
At odds with disease risk estimates
It's all a game of Risk!The first thing I did when I received my genotyping results from 23andMe was log on to their website and take a look at my estimated disease risks. For most people, these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Disguised’ heritability, changes ahead to marketing of personal genomics,...
Even though genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many loci associated with complex disease, much disease heritability is still unexplained, or “missing”. But what if rather than being...
View Article