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In Lung Cancer, Smokers Have 10 Times More Genetic Damage Than Never-Smokers
September 13, 2012 — Lung cancer patients with a history of smoking have 10 times more genetic mutations in their tumors than those with the disease who have never smoked, according to a new ... > full story -
New Potential Targets Discovered for Treating Squamous Cell Lung Cancers
September 9, 2012 — A new study holds out hope that people with the second most common type of lung cancer may one day benefit from targeted therapies that have transformed treatments for other lung cancer patients. ... > full story -
Genetic Clues to the Causes of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Researchers Find New Risk Regions Associated With Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
September 9, 2012 — Researchers have used a new technology to uncover three genetic regions associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the most common autoimmune liver disease. With this technology, scientists ... > full story -
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Who’s the Most Influential in a Social Graph? New Software Recognizes Key Influencers Faster Than Ever
September 7, 2012 — Determining the most influential person on a social media network is complex. Thousands of users are interacting about a single subject at the same time. New people are constantly joining the ... > full story -
Storm of 'Awakened' Transposons May Cause Brain-Cell Pathologies in ALS, Other Illnesses
September 6, 2012 — A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts reports important progress in an effort to understand the relationship between transposons -- sequences of DNA that can jump around within the ... > full story -
Major Advances in Understanding the Regulation and Organization of the Human Genome
September 5, 2012 — The National Human Genome Research Institute today announced the results of a five-year international study of the regulation and organization of the human genome. The project is named ENCODE, which ... > full story -
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Computational Method for Pinpointing Genetic Factors That Cause Disease
September 5, 2012 — Researchers have developed a computational method of identifying "causal" genetic variants that lead to particular diseases, with wide application for genome-wide association ... > full story -
First Holistic View of How Human Genome Actually Works: ENCODE Study Produces Massive Data Set
September 5, 2012 — The Human Genome Project produced an almost complete order of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the human genetic code -- but little about the way this blueprint works. ... > full storyMore:- Human Genome Far More Active Than Thought: GENCODE Consortium Discovers Far More Genes Than Previously Thought
- Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Human ENCODE Cells
- Fast Forward for Biomedical Research: Massive DNA Encyclopedia Scraps the Junk
- Huge Human Gene Study Includes Penn State University Research
- UMASS Medical School Faculty Annotate Human Genome for ENCODE Project
- UC Santa Cruz Provides Access to Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
- Yale Team Finds Order Amidst the Chaos Within the Human Genome
- Biochemical Functions for Most of Human Genome Identified: New Map Finds Genetic Regulatory Elements Account for 80 Percent of Our DNA
- Allegedly Useless Parts of the Human Genome Fulfil Regulatory Tasks
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Mapping a Genetic World Beyond Genes
September 5, 2012 — Most of the DNA alterations that are tied to disease do not alter protein-coding genes, but rather the "switches" that control them. Characterizing these switches is one of many goals of the ENCODE ... > full story -
ENCODE Project Publishes New Genomic Insights in Special Issue of Genome Research
September 5, 2012 — Genome Research publishes a special issue dedicated to The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project, whose goal is to characterize all functional elements in the human ... > full story
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