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Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You

The Sherpa metaphor seeks to guide you through the new world of personalized medicine.
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The Genome Scan Dirty Little Secret

Jun 15, 2009
You know what I love, you take a company who is inferring that science IS clinical utility and then you hire them to perform interpretation on something that in it's current for is often...

Good Enough Science? Apparently so at 23andme

Nov 4, 2009
"A total of 61 individuals involved in five norovirus outbreaks in Denmark were genotyped at nucleotides 428 and 571 of the FUT2 gene, determining secretor status, i.e., the presence of ABH antigens in secretions and on mucosa. A strong correlation...

Change IS Needed. I agree with William, sometimes.

Nov 4, 2009
Over the past day or so I have been engaged with one of my fiercest critics. No a critic of me per se, but a critic of my opinions in the space of Personalized Medicine. We may have a "truce", maybe...... William Gunn PhD is a pretty amazing guy and...

Away and now back, What did I miss???? 23andme layoffs? Selling Genomes for cheap up next!

Nov 2, 2009
23andSerge has layoffs, big surprise. When Linda left, she had a tribe that left too. I am working on hiring one or 2 and will see what exactly was going on over there......Likely a huge cash bleed GAPPNet has their first meeting, which I missed. I...

Gluco...Wha? Parkinson's Disease and Glucocerebrosidase mutations.

Oct 25, 2009
In 2007 I diagnosed a 74 year old woman with CF. She had a positive sweat test and positive mutation with an intronic mutation as well. I investigated this after she had bronchiectasis and no history of smoking. And a grandson with CF......... Why...

Did you get your kit? Thanks Dr. Rob from MedCo

Oct 23, 2009
I love and hate when GenomeWeb scoops me. I love it because I know someone else is out there assessing the field. But the competitive nature in me hates to be scooped......ah well, you can't win them all. It turns out that Good 'Ol Dr. Rob and I...

The Genome Scan Dirty Little Secret



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