Written by Skel Yeung Rare diseases affect up to 10% of the global population. Yet the majority of rare diseases […]
Mark Effingham, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, UK Biobank
Using data derived from the UK Biobank, researchers have found that polygenic scores have low portability between genetic populations. Polygenic […]
The UK Biobank has released whole-genome sequencing data on 200,000 participants and made it widely available on the platform – […]
A massive effort using exome sequencing data from more than 450,000 UK Biobank participants has revealed rare and common gene […]
Mark Effingham (Deputy CEO, UK Biobank) joined us at The Festival of Genomics and Biodata 2021 to give us an […]
The UK Biobank Exome Sequencing Consortium has released, as preprint in medRxiv, early results from the exome sequencing data generated […]
Early results analysed as part of the UK Biobank’s COVID-19 antibody study have been released. Samples that were collected from […]
In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, CEO of Sano Genetics, Patrick Short interviews Professor Sir Rory Collins, […]
Over the weekend, the UK Biobank announced a large-scale long term study to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the […]