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Guest post: the perils of genetic risk prediction in autism

This guest post from Daniel Howrigan, Benjamin Neale, Elise Robinson, Patrick Sullivan, Peter Visscher, Naomi Wray and Jian Yang (see biographies at end of post) describes their recent rebuttal of a...

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Guest post: Human genetics is microbial genomics

This is a guest post by Danny Wilson from the University of Oxford. Danny was recently awarded a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, and in this post he...

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Should the FDA regulate the interpretation of traditional epidemiology?

Last week, the FDA sent a sternly-worded letter to the personal genomics company 23andMe, arguing that the company is marketing an unapproved diagnostic device. Many have weighed in on this, but I’d...

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How emerging targeted mutation technologies could change the way we study...

This is a guest post from Mari Niemi at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Mari is a graduate researcher whose research combines the results of human genetic studies with zebrafish models to study...

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Pertinent and Non-pertinent Genomic Findings

About Guest Co-Author: Dr Ewan Birney is Associate Director of the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute and a fellow blogger. The ACMG recommendations on clinical genomic screening released earlier...

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The undiscovered chromosome

This guest post was contributed by Taru Tukiainen, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Analytic and Translational Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and...

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Guidelines for finding genetic variants underlying human disease

Authors: Daniel MacArthur and Chris Gunter.New DNA sequencing technologies are rapidly transforming the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases, but they also carry a risk: by allowing us to see all of the...

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A rare variant in Mexico with far-reaching implications

This guest post was contributed by Karol Estrada, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Analytic and Translational Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and...

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Eight types of schizophrenia? Not so fast…

Editor’s note: this guest post was contributed by ten leading psychiatric geneticists (see author list at the end of the post) in response to the headline-grabbing claims of a recent paper claiming to...

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Incorporating false discovery rates into genetic association in autism

This guest post was contributed by Joseph Buxbaum, Mark Daly, Silvia De Rubeis, Bernie Devlin, Kathryn Roeder, and Kaitlin Samocha from the Autism Sequencing Consortium (see affiliations and details at...

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