Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Genealogy and Biogeography to Now Meet Personalized Medicine

Biogeographical data may be helpful in screening for disease risk and drug sensitivity associated with certain ethnic groups. A team of researchers, including an investigator from Children''s Hospital Los Angeles, has developed a tool to accurately identify the biogeography of worldwide individuals. Previous tools were accurate in identifying place of origin within homogeneous European populations but highly inaccurate for places with significant immigration, such as the U.S. ...

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