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The Search for Exceptional Genomes
- chockablock 12y agoInspiring. Finding 'human knockouts' is a fantastic example of what becomes possible as sequencing gets cheap. Steven Hyman (former director of NIMH), recently argued that this approach is also key to developing treatments for depression: http://www.nature.com/news/mental-health-depression-needs-large-human-genetics-studies-1.16300 http://www.nature.com/news/mental-health-depression-needs-la... [At Nature, but not paywalled, thankfully]
- bthomas 12y agoThe article refers to Google sequencing healthy genomes, and I think I recently read something about Google running a longitudinal health study on employees (a la the Framingham Heart Study) - anyone here familiar with what they are doing?