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Newborn Genome Sequencing: What GUARDIAN and England’s Generation Study Have Reported So Far
Two large programs are testing whether a baby's genome can catch treatable conditions that heel-prick screening misses. Here are the published numbers…
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Polygenic Risk Scores: What They Can Tell You, and Why They Fall Short for Individuals
Polygenic risk scores rank people by inherited risk, not by fate. A myth-versus-fact guide to what the evidence supports, with ancestry gaps…
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Off-Target Effects in Gene Editing: How Scientists Find and Measure Them
Off-target effects are unintended gene edits. Here is how prediction, test-tube assays, cell-based methods and deep sequencing find them, and why no…
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Long-Read Sequencing: What It Finds in a Genome That Short Reads Miss
Short reads cover most of a genome but stumble on repeats and large rearrangements. Here is what long-read sequencing adds, with yields…