tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Human genetics branches out in Barcelona"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Human genetics branches out in Barcelona. | Meeting report Human genetics branches out in Barcelona Raquel Rabionet 4 Yolanda Espinosa-Parrilla and Xavier Estivill Addresses Genes and Disease Program Centre de regulació Genòmica CRG-UPF Dr. Aiguader 88 08003-Barcelona Spain. ỲCIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública CRG-UPF Dr. Aiguader 88 08003-Barcelona Spain. Correspondence Xavier Estivill. Email Published 13 August 2008 Genome Biology 2008 9 318 doi gb-2008-9-8-318 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2008 9 8 318 2008 BioMed Central Ltd A report of the European Human Genetics Conference Barcelona Spain 31 May-3 June 2008. The 2 400 attendance at the 2008 conference of the European Society of Human Genetics was a record for this annual meeting - a demonstration of how human genetics research is flourishing in Europe. Particular trends noted at this year s meeting include the role of copy-number variation and noncoding RNAs in human disease advances in the functional characterization of disease-causing genetic defects and therapeutic strategies based on reversing the effects of gene mutations. Here we report a few of the highlights of the meeting in these areas. From association studies to the molecular basis of disease Recent results of genome-wide association scans applied to complex diseases demonstrate the importance of large international collaborative studies and sophisticated statistical analysis of the data. On behalf of the Diabetes Genetics Replication and Meta-analysis DIAGRAM Consortium Eleftheria Zeggini University of Oxford UK presented the results of a meta-analysis of three genomewide association scans to find genes associated with type 2 diabetes. These projects from the Diabetes Genetics Initiative DGI the Finland-United States Investigation of NIDDM Genetics FUSION and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium WTCCC encompassed 10 128 individuals of European descent and around .