James Fowler, Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science at University of California at San Diego.
The research was published in the Journal of Medical Genetics.
The research is published in the Journal of Medical Genetics.
"Everyone has genetic variations" many of which will never cause disease, says Michael S. Watson, executive director of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, a professional organization.
From the onset, the Personal Genome Project, set up by Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics George Church, has warned participants of the risk that someone someday could identify them, meaning anyone could look up the intimate medical histories that many have posted along with their genome data.
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Adele Schneider, director of clinical genetics at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and principal investigator of the current research, says the study came together after she saw three families of Irish descent who all had children with Tay-Sachs in the past few years.
Szostak was previously at Harvard Medical School and is currently professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Today CPEP offers for-credit courses to nearly 100 men per year at Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facility, on subjects ranging from genetics and poetry to economics and medical anthropology.
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Genetics, socioeconomic factors, environmental factors and accidents all affect an individual's health outcomes and medical costs.
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The researchers, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Stanford University, published their results in the journal Nature Genetics.
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