Archive for the tag 'NEJM'

Mar 19 2010

Confusion Over Utility of Common Genetic Variations in Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

Published by ErinC under news

A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week, entitled “Performance of Common Genetic Variants in Breast-Cancer Risk Models,” has led several media outlets to declare that common genetic variants have nothing to add when it comes to predicting breast cancer risk.  Here we’ll explain how the [...]

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Aug 25 2009

Very Personalized Medicine: Sequencing of Second Cancer Patient Reveals Potentially Significant Mutations

Published by SatyaS under news

A new genetic screening process has helped researchers understand the genetic causes of cancer, such as how mutations accumulated in a person’s life can cause leukemia.
The study shows that by comparing a person’s own DNA to that of their cancerous cells, researchers can find DNA mutations that may have led to abnormal cell growth, or [...]

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