Birney Group

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23 May 2024

Predicting cancer risk on the basis of national health data

Science & Technology Large-scale study uses data from Danish health registries to predict individual risks of developing cancer

2024

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22 March 2023 Artistic representation that features a long, winding helix joining together a doughnut-figure to a small shaggy ball to indicate the connections long-read sequencing can make about DNA mutations.

Artistic representation that features a long, winding helix joining together a doughnut-figure to a small shaggy ball to indicate the connections long-read sequencing can make about DNA mutations.

The ‘long read’ for cancer

Using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing, EMBL scientists sequenced a primary childhood brain tumour known as a medulloblastoma, uncovering a novel complex mutation pattern.

2023

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12 August 2022 Two chromosomes with variation

CNest: a new method for copy number variation analysis

Science & Technology A new method for the robust analysis of copy number variation and used UK Biobank data to identify links between genome and disease.

2022

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