Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Our genes contain information that scientists hope will help in the treatment of many diseases. Huntington's disease provides a window on the choices we face as medicine increases our ability to ...

A genetic database is one or more sets of genetic data (genes, gene products, variants, phenotypes) stored together with software to enable users to retrieve genetic data, add genetic data and extract ...

Karin Dent, Director of the University of Utah Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling, is a certified and licensed genetic counselor at the University of Utah and Associate Professor in the Department ...

Disease genetics, of human, animal and plant diseases, investigates the consequences of pathogenic (host) genetic variants as the major causes of heritable disorders (monogenic diseases) as well as ...