Dec 12 2008
As the director of Britain’s Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, Peter Donnelly oversees research that provides vital raw material for the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ — specifically, correlations between one-letter DNA variations, known as SNPs, and particular diseases.
Those correlations are made by research projects known as genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which scan the genomes [...]
Oct 11 2008
The structure of DNA was first publicly described 55 years ago at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island in New York by James Watson. Thursday night, the now 80-year-old Watson opened up the 2008 Personal Genomes meeting at CSHL by telling the story of the origins of the Human Genome Project, which he [...]
Aug 19 2008
In a recent post we used an analysis of Craig Venter’s genome to illustrate how much has yet to be learned about the relationship between genetic variation and health-related traits.
A new paper by Venter and colleagues at his Rockville, Maryland-based institute provides a prime example. Writing in the September issue of Clinical Phamacology & Therapeutics, [...]
Jul 06 2008
The California Department of Public Health has made headlines in the past few weeks with its effort to rein in direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. We were one of 13 companies who received a cease-and-desist letter from the department, to which we’ve responded (more on that here).
We agree that this evolving field of personal genomics [...]
