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The South of England is reeling with the news that there has been another foot and mouth outbreak. DEFRA, the government organisation responsible for managing the agricultural industry has also stepped in with various embargoes. This comes only a few years after the farming community was nearly decimated from a foot and mouth outbreak in the North of […]
A specific genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health have found.
Known medically as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, this psychiatric condition affects roughly 8 percent of women in their childbearing years. It’s […]
What are SNPs?
Single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronounced “snips”) are DNA sequence variations that occur when a SINGLE nucleotide (A,T,C,or G) in the genome sequence is altered. For example a SNP might change the DNA sequence TCTAACCGG to TTTAACCGG. For a variation to be considered a SNP, it must occur in at least 1% of the […]
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Let’s start this week’s Genetics and Health blog with a contentious subject - screening embryos for known mutations.
In the UK, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority has just licenced University College Hospital, London to screen embryos for the BRCA breast cancer single gene mutations. The BRCA genes raise the lifetime risk of breast cancer to between […]
Hi to all b5 bloggers!
This is Penny Harrington here, I’m your new genetics blogger all the way from Europe! I’m totally into genetics and health and pretty much have the low down on what’s going on around the world in this field and boy is there a lot going on! My passion is to check out new technologies that […]
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