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analysis ofallelic association forgenes throughout agenome .
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Last question, just a clarification here again, kind of GWAS, not putting words in your mouth but sounds nothing large there really going on, cytogenetics growing rapidly.
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Last question, just a clarification here again, kind of GWAS, not putting words in your mouth but sounds nothing large there really going on, cytogenetics growing rapidly.
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The awful lesson from this is that the more tightly you manage things the odder the unanticipated consequences on May 18, 2009 at 6: 08 am GWAS Medic
The First Of The Gang To Die. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Stephan, who suspected that many of the reported GWAS results were tantamount to garbage, attached great importance to the triage process.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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GWAS could facilitate much quicker paths from gene to drug, as deCODE once demonstrated in moving from heart-disease genes spotted by GWAS to a drug in clinical trials in just two years.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Dennis Drayna, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health, sympathized with Goldstein, even though he was waist-deep in GWAS himself.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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New York Times: and 454 successes, 17; Goldstein GWAS comments in, 62; Martin comment about X Prize in, 233; Quake article in, 123, 222; Rienhoff quote in, 39; Rubin comment about Sanger method in, 93; Stoicescu comment in, 208; and 23andMe launch, 33
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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This is a prerequisite for most GWAS papers in the major journals.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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But by the year 2000, the number had climbed to 1 million, and the idea of conducting genome-wide association studies GWAS for complex diseases like diabetes and heart disease became serious.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Studies by Helen Hobbs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center showed that targeted sequencing could identify such “Goldilocks” variants.12 But some scientists thought Goldstein went too far, arguing that the value of GWAS is not so much in predicting personal disease susceptibility as in identifying likely disease pathways.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
MaryW commented on the word GWAS
Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 4 (Kindle loc. 1046)December 17, 2016