10000 UK NHS patients to have genes mapped
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“An NHS hospital has begun decoding all the genes of individual patients, 10 years after the first human genome sequence was published.
London’s Royal Brompton Hospital said the project would give doctors a better understanding of the inherited factors that help trigger heart disease.
The research involves sequencing all 22,000 genes found in the human genome in 10,000 patients.
It heralds more personalised treatments for diseases.
Genes are chunks of DNA that contain instructions for making chemicals in the body. As well as controlling things like eye and hair colour, faults in genes may make people susceptible to disease.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10367883.stm
Video here but it doesn’t seem to be working right now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10370658.stm
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