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Genomics|Resources|Books|HuGE 2010 Resources Human Genome Epidemiology 2nd edition book cover Human Genome Epidemiology (2nd ed.): Building the evidence for using genetic information to improve health and prevent disease Edited by Muin J. Khoury,...

Electronic patient records, clinical trials, DNA sequencing, and medical imaging and disease registries are a sampling of the sources contributing to the exponential growth of public databases housing biomedical information. Researchers hope...

Huntsville, Ala. — HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research institute, has been awarded a four-year, $6.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the next phase of the Encyclopedia of...

For Heidi Rehm, it looked like a straightforward case. Her lab at Partners Healthcare offers tests for genetic diseases. They had received a blood sample from a fetus after a doctor conducting an ultrasound spotted signs of Noonan syndrome—an inherited...

Cervical Cancer 500,000 Is the annual number of cases of cervical cancer worldwide. 200,000 Is the annual number of deaths caused by cervical cancer worldwide. 12,000 Is the number of cases of cervical cancer in the U.S. each year. 4,000 Is the...