1,000 dollars to sequence the entire 3 billion ‘basepair’ long human genome is the holy grail. Last year, on this blog, I predicted that we’d reach that goal ‘within a year’. Well, it’s been a year and we aren’t there. I did hedge a bit in the comments later, but the main point was that [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Shout out to Daniel MacArthur and Paul D. who sought us out at ASHG to say [...]
Genetic Future reports: First ever association study using whole genome sequences. New-technology DNA sequencing provider Complete Genomics will provide near-complete genome sequences of 100 individuals to the Institute for Systems Biology, driving the first ever association study for a complex trait using whole-genome sequencing. Here’s the press release, and GenomeWeb has some additional information This study was done by Complete [...]
I was just having this discussion with in-laws, both in the medical field, that personal genomics was on it’s way. We discussed how this was going to affect our health insurance and health care, in both good and scary ways. Well, as Genetic Future blogs, Illumina delivers its first commercial personal genome sequence. The service cost [...]
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