Sentences with phrase «most genomic studies»

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But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

When the researchers took a closer look on the genomic areas pinpointed in the study, they noticed that most of them overlap with known genes.

The study is the largest and most ethnically diverse genomics study of multiple myeloma to date, the researchers said.

«Most aging cells develop genomic changes that make them more susceptible to the carcinogens in the environment,» says oncologist Lodovico Balducci, who studies and treats cancer in the elderly at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla..

This genomic data has been generated at the CNAG - CRG and it is considered as the most comprehensive study of the genome of wild orangutans carried out so far.

The study identifies 60 genomic regions associated with birth weight, most of which had not previously been identified.

Most receptors are annotated from comparative genomic studies [8], which means non-coding UTRs are frequently missing.

Most studies have looked at intratumoral heterogeneity at the genomic level.

To date, most of the negative studies have been carried out in CFS and not in prostate cancer, and some have speculated that the original discovery of XMRV may in fact reflect bona fide viral infection but that subsequent studies were potentially tainted by mouse genomic contamination and / or widespread circulation of positive control plasmids containing the XMRV infectious molecular clone VP62 [40], [41], [42].

June 4, 2015 New tool brings standards to epigenetic studies One of the most widely used tools in epigenetics research — the study of how DNA packaging affects gene expression — is chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), a technique that allows researchers to examine interactions between specific proteins and genomic regions.