Research on the genetic roots of a blood disorder illustrates the challenges in parsing genetic data

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

Does a particular genetic variation translate into a predisposition to an illness, or is it simply a benign rearrangement of genetic code? Drawing up on genomic data from thousands of people, researchers attempted to answer this question by focusing on mutations in two genes associated with a key receptor in blood clotting. More »

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