Dutcher’s work on Chlamydomonas helps home in on disease (Links to an external site)
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The gene-environment enigma (Links to an external site)
Personalized medicine centers on being able to predict the risk of disease or response to a drug based on a person’s genetic makeup. But a study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that, for most common diseases, genes alone only tell part of the story.
Genetics professor Michael Province receives grant to study longevity (Links to an external site)
A team led by Michael A. Province, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics and genetics, received a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to establish a Data Management and Coordinating Center (DMCC) for the “Exceptional Longevity Family Study.”