An international team of researchers has provided a genetic diagnosis for 30 individuals whose condition was undiagnosed for years despite extensive clinical or genetic testing.
New work points to a GGC repeat expansion that encodes a polyglycine-containing protein as a cause of SCA4, highlighting polyglycine disorders as an emerging human genetic disease class.
Clinical genetics involves the study, counselling and treatment of individuals and families with heritable disorders and disease predisposition. Diagnostic tools include standard ontologies for ...
Genetic studies overwhelmingly are based on data from people of European descent. But University of Maryland, Baltimore scientists are working to change that. Researchers have developed the Genetics ...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)-;an alliance of leading cancer centers focusing on maintaining evidence-based expert consensus driven guidelines for care-;announces the publication of ...
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have identified an inherited genetic variation prevalent among East Asians that contributes to drug resistance, driving the aggressive ...