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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleShould 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticlePertinent 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGuidelines 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleEight 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...
View ArticleIncorporating 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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