Archive for March, 2015
My notes from ENCODE Consortium Meeting
Monday, March 23rd, 2015ReplicationDomain – Online database resource for DNA replication timing, transcription and other epigenetic data types – Main Page
Monday, March 23rd, 2015Older Really Can Mean Wiser – NYTimes.com
Monday, March 23rd, 2015JAMA Network | JAMA | Stealth Research: Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature?
Monday, March 23rd, 2015Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature? http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2110977 Focuses on diagnostics company, #Theranos
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This Viewpoint discusses the need for scientific transparency when biomedical innovation takes place outside of the peer-reviewed literature.
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by J Ioannidis
From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Monday, March 23rd, 2015From noncoding variant to phenotype…at…#cholesterol locus http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/full/nature09266.html
Gold standard ex of #SNP functional effect: LDL changes
Kiran Musunuru,
Alanna Strong,
Maria Frank-Kamenetsky,
et al.
Nature 466, 714–719 (05 August 2010) doi:10.1038/nature09266
Changes LDL level
Uncovering disease-disease relationships through the incomplete interactome
Monday, March 23rd, 2015Disease-disease relationships through the incomplete interactome, by @barabasi http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6224/1257601.abstract #Network modules for 226 diseases
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Altogether, disease genes associated with 226 of the 299 diseases show a statistically significant tendency to form disease modules based on both Si andP(ds) (fig. S4).
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