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Genomics|Update|Current

Reviews, News & Commentaries

Population and personalized medicine in the modern era 
Jessica L. Mega et al. JAMA November 17, 2014 

Promoting healthy dietary behaviour through personalised nutrition: technology push or technology pull?
Stewart-Knox B, et al. Proc Nutr Soc. 2014 Oct 24:1-6.

The area under the ROC curve: Is it a valid measure of screening performance? 
Wald NJ1, Bestwick JP2. J Med Screen. 2014 Dec;21(4):220.

What do all the (human) micro-RNAs do?
Alfred Ultsch and Jörn Lötsch  BMC Genomics 2014, 15:976 

Is the gene-editing revolution finally here? A DNA-editing technique based on bacterial “memories” could revolutionize medicine. But some worry it could get out of control, by Margaret Knox, Scientific American, December 2014

Data-access practices strengthened, Nature News, Nov 19

The search for exceptional genomes, by Anonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review, Nov 19

Questions for Thomas Insel: Paths to treatments for autism, byJessica Wright , SFARI  Nov 18

'Platinum' genome takes on disease, by Ewen Callaway, Nature News, Nov 18

Alzheimer’s test detects disease decade ahead of onset, by Megan Scudellari, Bloomberg News, Nov 17

Public attitudes toward genetic risk testing and its role in healthcare, Medscape, Nov 17 [by free subscription only]

Why we should resist the lure of home genetic tests, by Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail, Nov 16

Pharmacogenetics helps fine-tune warfarin dosing in kidney, by Kari Oakes, HCP Live, Nov 16

It’s not always the DNA, by Diana Lutz, Washington University, Nov 13

Traversing the cancer biomarker labyrinth: Cancer cells have distinctive molecular architectures full of twists and turns. Biomarkers, however, can reveal the floor plans needed to guide healthcare decisions, by Kathy Liszewski, GEN Bio, Nov 15

IBM's Watson will give you health advice based on your DNA, by Francie Diep, Popular Science, Nov 12