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The UK government has launched a pilot project to analyse the blood samples of UK stroke patients who experience side effects to understand the roles of genetic influence in stroke prevention medicines.

UK Biobank offers up biggest ever cache of whole-genome sequences for medical research

According to a recent study, close family marriages, or consanguinity, may raise the chance of developing common conditions including type 2 diabetes and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Read further on Dynamite News:

In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed where she revealed she’d undergone a double mastectomy. Although Jolie didn’t have breast cancer, a genetic test had revealed she carried a genetic mutation that her doctors said put her at an 87% risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. Jolie…

Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variants may be told of higher cancer risk without accounting for family history

As it turns out, it’s impossible to remove a user’s data from a trained A.I. model. Deleting the model entirely is also difficult—and there’s little regulation to enforce either option.

Large new study using UK Biobank data shows even a small reduction in salt intake can be beneficial

Researchers have developed a tool which can ‘strongly predict’ whether a person will develop dementia

Predictive tool ‘significantly outperforms’ others available and could help avert about 40% of cases