Ulcerative colitis genetics, Nature on the human genome
Yes, it’s Friday Links time yet again here at Genomes Unzipped.A paper in Nature Genetics this week reports the results of a large meta-analysis of GWAS studies into ulcerative colitis, which more than...
View ArticleAt odds with disease risk estimates
It's all a game of Risk!The first thing I did when I received my genotyping results from 23andMe was log on to their website and take a look at my estimated disease risks. For most people, these...
View ArticleDozens of new IBD genes, but can they predict disease?
Out in Nature this week is a paper by three Genomes Unzipped authors reporting 71 new genetic associations with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This breaks the record for the largest number of...
View ArticleLooking closer at natural selection in inflammatory bowel disease
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we recently published a large study into the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which included a number of analyses digging into the biology and evolutionary...
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