Category Archives: Medical Genomics

A few people shared with me some screenshots from a message from Ambry Genetics regarding polygenic risk scores (click to enlarge). From what I can gather this seems to indicate […]

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As you may have heard, Finland is starting a major genomics initiative. Basically , hey’re going to try and sequence 500,000 Finns over the next 6 years. Obviously, these are goals, and sometimes efforts fall short. But sequencing is only going to get cheaper, so I think they’ll get it done. After the UK Biobank, […]

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It’s a fun fact that there are an order of magnitude more bacterial cells in your body than your own cells. Not only that, it’s well known that we wouldn’t flourish, let alone survive, without our gut “flora,” which digest material which would otherwise pass through out system. Not only are microbes good for us, […]

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Razib Khan