Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Interested in exploring your own genome?

Interpretome is an interesting new project coming out of Stanford University that is designed to help people analyze their own genome (assuming it comes from 20andMe and Lumigenix.) The site lets you perform a variety of genotyping analysis, such as exploring your ancestry, searching for known single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to determine your risk to a wide range of diseases, or even performing a pharmacogenomic analysis to determine your response to a wide range of drugs. Of course, the web site places a big disclaimer on its main page, indicating that its results are for educational purposes only, and should not be used for diagnostic purposes.

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Epigenetics

This link is a great introduction to epigenetics.