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WORLD’S LARGEST BROWSABLE RESOURCE LINKING RARE PROTEIN-CODING GENETIC VARIANTS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE

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Today, access to the world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and disease was launched through a genetic exome sequence analysis collaboration between AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), Biogen Inc. Nasdaq: BIIB) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE).

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A new dawn of the genomic age: five areas set to be transformed in 2023

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We are already seeing an increase in projects exploring population genomics in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with initiatives including the GenomeAsia100K Project and the Genome Aggregation Database focusing on capturing genetic data of non-European individuals.

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Collaboration between AbbVie, Biogen and Pfizer creates world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and disease

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The access to the world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human health and disease was launched through a genetic exome sequence analysis collaboration between AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), Biogen Inc. Nasdaq: BIIB) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE).

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GSK pumps £30m into a new Oxford University partnership

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Genetics, proteomics and digital pathology will be harnessed in order to understand the patterns of disease which vary amongst individuals, said GSK. ” The new institute will also draw on GSK’s partnerships with organisations, such as 23andMe and UK Biobank, that are a source of genetic information in diseases.

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Genetic Technologies Provides Update on its COVID-19 Disease Severity Risk Test and Expansion into Germline Testing

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The UK biobank released a further dataset on COVID-19 positive patients consisting of ~4,000 confirmed COVID-19 infected patients in November 2020. As previously outlined, Genetic Technologies established the Germline Testing division following the strategic decision to offer hereditary testing for inherited cancer.

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Research Roundup: Blood Test for Severe COVID-19 and More

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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Effective Against UK Variant. Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their COVID-19 vaccine was probably just as effective against the variant strain of the virus, B.1.1.7, They are now working to identify what genetic aberrations are causing ALS in about half of the Maltese patients.