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The Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center has received a four-year, $85.2 million renewal award from the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute. Directed by Dr. Richard Gibbs, the Baylor Genome Sequencing Center seeks to advance the study of genomics and its use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Large-scale centers carry load "NHGRI relies on the large-scale centers to be its sequencing production and intellectual...
The era of widely available next generation personal genomic testing has arrived and with it the ability to quickly and relatively affordably learn the sequence of your entire genome. This would include what is referred to as the "exome," your complete set of protein-coding sequences. But as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill medical geneticists point out, this avalanche of information also includes the totality of one's genetic mutations and as such arrives with both promise and...
PHILADELPHIA and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and BGI, the world's largest genomics institute, today announced they have formed a partnership, BGI@CHOP, to conduct large-scale human genome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis at a newly established, state-of-the-art Joint Genome Center at Children's Hospital. The partnership will focus on the discovery of genes underpinning rare and common pediatric diseases using...
SAN DIEGO and TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics (NYSE: SI) and Illumina have entered into a partnership aimed at setting new standards in the use of next-generation sequencing for the rapid, accurate identification of patients' infectious disease states and potential treatment paths. Through this agreement, the companies plan to make existing Siemens molecular HIV tests compatible with the recently launched Illumina MiSeq(TM) next-generation...
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American College of Medical Genetics Board of Directors has voted to add the word "Genomics" to its name, thereby changing the name to "American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics" officially to be in effect at the 2012 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics meeting in March 2012. The ACMG acronym will remain the same. The ACMG was founded in 1991 in recognition of the importance of the genetic approach to diagnosis, management,...
Geneticists at Emory University School of Medicine have demonstrated a method that enables the routine amplification of all the genes on the X chromosome. The technology allows the rapid and highly accurate sequencing and identification of novel genetic variants affecting X chromosome genes. The method, developed in cooperation with RainDance Technologies, is described in the Oct. 2011 issue of Genomics. Senior author Michael Zwick, PhD, assistant professor of human genetics at Emory...
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Start Genetics, an innovative molecular diagnostics company developing the new gold standard for routine carrier screening in clinical practice, will announce later today positive results of a validation study of its proprietary next-generation DNA sequencing platform. In the study, to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Good Start Genetics' sequencing test accurately...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Start Genetics,(TM) Inc., an innovative molecular diagnostics company developing the new gold standard in carrier screening, today announced that it will present results from the technical validation study for its proprietary next-generation DNA sequencing platform at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). ASRM will be held from October 15-19, 2011 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando,...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, October 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA today report the discovery of low frequency variants in the human genome that associate with risk of gout, a common inflammatory arthritis, and serum uric acid levels. The study was done in collaboration with Illumina, Inc., and is published today in the online edition of Nature Genetics. Using Illumina...
Based on a wide variety of genetic studies and analysis– from genome wide association studies looking for common variations in the DNA of many people with complex diseases to the sequencing of specific gene mutations thought to cause disease to whole genome sequencing – four Houston leaders in the field propose a unified genetic model for human disease. "What emerges is a unified picture whereby previously distinct entities or categories of human diseases, chromosomal syndromes,...
