Sentences with phrase «individual genome scanned»

In 2009, everybody can get his or her individual genome scanned - for disease, for ancestry, for recreation.

Not exact matches

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

While several studies in the intervening years have investigated whether particular genes were responsible for modifying HD onset, this is the first to employ genome - wide association (GWA) analysis, which scans an individual's whole genome to identify chromosomal regions containing variants that are associated with the disease traits that are being studied.

Falling well short of full genome analyses, these services scan an individual's DNA for single nucleotide polymorphisms — point mutations — that are linked to traits and diseases.

In the new study, which appears in Cell today, the researchers scrutinized the DNA of five individuals from each group, scanning each genome an average of 60 times.

In the study, geneticist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues scanned the entire genomes of about 70 individuals from three pygmy groups in Cameroon, and another 60 from three neighboring Bantu groups (tall, thin, farming tribes with whom pygmies have intermarried for generations).

The same staff and facility also process deCODE's DNA - based reference laboratory tests for gauging individual risk of major public health challenges ranging from heart attack to breast cancer, as well as the company's pioneering deCODEme ™ scans, the world's first personal genome analysis and focused disease area scans.

That framework can then be used to scan genomic data from multiple individuals and compute the probabilities that individual mutations or regions of a genome are adaptive.

deCODE will employ its CLIA - registered genotyping laboratory and existing testing platform to swiftly integrate the finding into its deCODEme ™ personal genome scan, and to assess the addition of this new variant to the company's deCODE T2 ™ reference laboratory test for assesing individual risk of type 2 diabetes.

First, the SNPs with the best results from previous genome - wide scans of more than 300,000 SNPs were tested in large numbers of individuals with and without BCC.

Latest discoveries add to understanding of individual risk of basal cell carcinoma, and are integrated into the deCODEme ™ personal genome analysis scan Reykjavik, ICELAND, October 13, 2008 — Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN) today report the discovery of...

She is scanning the genomes of individuals in the current study to identify regions that may contain additional gene candidates.