genetics
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Today I Discovered All People With Blue Eyes Are Distantly Related
As a brown-eyed person, I’ve always been jealous of people with striking blue eyes, but it turns out there’s a reason I never got that genetic gift: It comes from a select lineage. At one point in human history, everyone had brown eyes, until a single person developed the blue-eyed mutation. Every other blue eyed…
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Genome.one Is Using Cloud Computing To Sequence Your Genome
Genome.one sequences and interprets genomes to provide diagnoses to people affected by genetic diseases or who have a predisposition to specific genetic conditions. What separates them from the likes of 23andMe and Ancestry.com’s services is that Genome.one’s goal is to provide information that is meaningful in a clinical sense. At the recent AWS Summit held…
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The Next Pseudoscience Health Craze Is All About Genetics
Recently, Vitaliy Husar received results from a DNA screening that changed his life. It wasn’t a gene that suggested a high likelihood of cancer or a shocking revelation about his family tree. It was his diet. It was all wrong.
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How Many Kids Will You Have? It’s In Your DNA
For the first time, researchers have identified 12 specific areas of the DNA sequence that are related to how many kids we will have, and how old we will be when we have them.