Local ancestry inference method could improve accuracy of genetic testing and patient diagnoses

Researchers at Texas Children's Neurological Research Institute (NRI) and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Researchers develop new tool to improve accuracy of genetic testing

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s ...

Texas Children's Researchers Create Groundbreaking Tool to Improve Accuracy of Genetic Testing

Researchers at Texas Children's Neurological Research Institute (NRI) and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a ...
Technology Networks

Genetic Testing Accuracy Enhanced by Ancestry-Specific Tool

Researchers have introduced a new analytical approach that could improve the interpretation of genetic variation in ...
The Scientist

NIH Genome Database Breaks New Ground

BETHESDA, MD.—Behind the scenes of the Human Genome Project—the 15-year, $3 billion effort to decipher our genetic makeup—researchers are working on a different sort of code. In a high-rise tower on ...
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UC Irvine-led research team builds first tandem repeat expansions genetic reference maps

Irvine, Calif., April 5, 2024 — A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has built the first genetic reference maps for short lengths of DNA repeated multiple times which are known ...
The Scientist

Ancestry Bias Could Cause CRISPR Screens to Veer Off-target

CRISPR-Cas9 enables researchers to make precise and targeted edits in the genome to determine gene function. For this, scientists use guide RNAs, which are short stretches of RNA sequences that lead ...
Technology Networks

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Joins Alliance for Genomic Discovery, Expanding Diverse Clinical Genomic Dataset To Drive Precision Medicine

Alnylam joins Illumina and NashBio’s Alliance for Genomic Discovery to expand its 250,000 genome dataset and fuel RNAi research.
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Alnylam Pharma joins Alliance for Genomic Discovery, expanding diverse clinical genomic dataset to drive precision medicine

Alnylam Pharma joins Alliance for Genomic Discovery, expanding diverse clinical genomic dataset to drive precision medicine: San Diego Saturday, September 20, 2025, 12:00 Hrs [IST ...