Birth of a new era

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3164, 2018, págs. 6-7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fang Chen at the Beijing Genomics Institute in China and his team have used the new, easier method to sequence two fetal genomes. They found that one had gene variants associated with bowel cancer, liver disease and an intestinal disorder. The other had a gene variant linked to a severe salt imbalance disorder. The ability to identify such wide-ranging and subtle genetic information early in pregnancy could take parents into new philosophical ground. Many gene variants only increase disease risk by a small amount, but some can give a child a 1 in 5 chance of developing a childhood cancer.