A new study analyzing the association between an individual's genetics (genotype) and their observable characteristics resulting from the interaction of genetics and the environment (phenotype), ...

Of the more than 3,000 variants that have been identified in the NF1 gene, only a handful of specific variants can be correlated to certain NF1 symptoms. In this post, I’ll discuss the major known ...

Université de Strasbourg and partners report that adding structural variants and small insertion–deletion mutations to single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses raised trait heritability estimates by 14 ...

Humans have approximately 20,000 human protein-coding genes, and the proteins they express span a concentration range of ~12 logs. Yet only 0.1% of proteins contribute to 99% of the total plasma ...

Children's Oncology Group Trial AALL1231: A Phase III Clinical Trial Testing Bortezomib in Newly Diagnosed T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Lymphoma Patients with SAs had a mean increase of 120 ...

Predictors of recurrence in stage I/II colorectal cancer: Analysis of a single institution’s experience for over 24 years. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Gastrointestinal Cancers ...

Northwestern University biophysicists have developed a new computational tool for identifying gene combinations underlying complex illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and asthma. Unlike single-gene ...