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Genome Center
The Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University Medical School focuses on the large scale generation and analysis of DNA sequence. The center is a leader in The Human Genome Project. The rapid release of the data over the internet facilitates the elucidation of gene function, forming the ultimate basis for an understanding of how DNA sequence dictates the form and function of an organism.
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DNA cornucopia
Amaizeing: Corn genome decoded
Nov. 19,
2009 --
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In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at the School of Medicine published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
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A shared link
Decoding leukemia patient genome leads scientists to mutations in other patients
Aug. 5,
2009 -- Decoding the complete DNA of cancer patients is giving scientists at the School of Medicine a clearer picture of the complexity of the disease and allowing them to see intriguing and unexpected genetic relationships among patients.
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Human Microbiome Project
$19 million to WU scientists to decode microbe DNA and explore links to disease
June 23,
2009 --
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| Human gut bacterium Enterococcus faecalis |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis four grants totaling $19 million to explore the trillions of microbes that inhabit the human body and determine how they contribute to good health and disease. The grants are part of the Human Microbiome Project, an ongoing, ambitious effort to catalog the bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that naturally coexist in or on the body.
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Elaine Mardis
Co-director, Genome Sequencing Center
As Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center, Mardis helps select genomes of interest and evaluate the optimal sequencing strategy to apply to each genome. As Director of Technology Development at the GSC, she supervises a group that includes engineers and molecular biologists toward exploring and ...
Expertise: DNA sequencing, high-speed, SNPs, genome, sequencing technology, resequencing, genetics
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Richard Wilson
Director, Genome Sequencing Center
Under the leadership of Richard Wilson and other experts, the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) has become an internationally renowned center for innovative high-speed sequencing of genetic material. Researchers at the GSC produced the initial analyses of more than 20 percent of the human genome and were ...
Expertise: Large-scale genome sequencing and analysis, gene sequencing, chromosome, Human Genome Project
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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New Clues to Sex Anomalies in How Y Chromosomes Are Copied
The New York Times
Sept. 16,
2009 -- Article looks at another David Page contribution to the science of genetics.
A weakness in the system that allows the male Y chromosome to protect and repair itself can explain an array of genetic sexual disorders.:
The palindromes were discovered in 2003 when the Y chromosome's sequence of bases, represented by the familiar letters G, C, T and A, was first worked out by David Page of the Whitehead Institute and colleagues at the DNA sequencing center at WUSTL medical school.
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Genome of Leukemia Patient Reveals Common Mutations
U.S. News & World Report online
and 13 others
Aug. 6,
2009 -- Decoding the genome of a man with acute myeloid leukemia revealed genetic mutations that may be common among other cancer patients. The findings could help scientists understand the genetic basis of cancer. Includes comments by WUSTL researchers Richard Wilson, co-author and director of the Genome Center, and Timothy Ley, study senior author and medicine professor.
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Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
U.S. News & World Report online
July 1,
2009 -- WUSTL biochemists Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson helped decode the human genome and are now working to find genetic mutations associated with acute myeloid leukemia.
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Experts Decode Cancer Patient's Genes, Seeking Treatment Clues
The New York Times
and 57 others
Nov. 6,
2008 -- For the first time, researchers have decoded all the genes of a person with cancer and found a set of mutations that might have caused the disease or aided its progression. Includes comments by Richard Wilson, senior study author and director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, and WUSTL hematologist Timothy Ley, director of the study.
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Closest look yet at lung cancer genes
Science News Web edition
Oct. 23,
2008 -- A large probe of lung tumors sheds light on the mutations that tend to underlie cancer in a new study conducted by researchers from Washington University, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. The study also identifies new cellular pathways that can trigger these malignancies.
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