A top-down approach to genetic networks. July 5, 2007. From p-ter at Gene Expression.
Comments on data mining health records to correlate hereditary disorders.
ENCODE. July 4, 2007. From Alex Palazzo at The Daily Transcript. A summary and critique, for the general reader, of: “Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project”. Nature 447, 799-816 (14 June 2007) doi:10.1038/nature05874.
Ownership and Genetic Information
One Big Happy Family Genome, July 7, 2007. From Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA. Lei comments on the BMJ “Head-to-Head” feature: “Should families own genetic information?” BMJ 2007;335:22 (7 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39252.386030.AD.
Towards a World without Genetic Diseases July 7, 2007. From Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll.
Mentions recent genetic research advances on muscular dystrophies and potential technologies to speed translation.
Indian genetic database offers R&D advances, July 7, 2007. From Albin Paul at Microarray Blog. Describes the work of The Indian Genome Variation Consortium, including: “data on the genetic codes of over a 1,000 genes from among 15,000 individuals belonging to Indian sub-populations”.