Personal genomics
Where Are You From?
06/06/12 13:03 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Ewen Callaway at Nature News pointed out that whole-genome sequencing is already being used by companies for ancestry testing. S. Pelech notes that there are 7 billion people on the planet with ancestral roots that run deep in time, and ultimately these roots all trace back to a small family of Homo sapiens about 200,000 years ago that lived in Africa. While very human-like creatures such as Homo erectus (the ax maker) existed nearly 2 million years, it would appear that Homo sapiens were on the verge of extinction back around 200,000 years ago. Read More...
Free Personal Genome, with a Catch
27/04/10 12:35 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Blogger Iddo Friedberg at Byte Size Biology asked if people are willing to have their genomes sequenced for free if it was also made available for public research use along with some personal information, such as age, height, sex and disese history? However, wiith so many SNPs in the human genome, and over-riding factors such as epigenomic, transcriptional, translational and post-translational regulation affected by external factors, S. Pelech wonders just how useful knowledge of the sequence of one's genome will actually be in the near future. Read More...