Archive for the ‘Heart disease’ category

SNPwatch: KIF6 Tangos with LDL Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease

February 2, 2012

A genetic variant in the KIF6 gene has been controversially linked to heart disease and statin response. In 2010 it looked like the tide was turning and that there was no association after all, but now new research suggests that the relationship may simply be a little more complex.

My Heart, My Family, and MYBPC3

January 23, 2012

By Arnab Chowdry, Senior Scientific Software Engineer at 23andMe Having been young and healthy for the majority of my life, I haven’t had many opportunities to interact with our health care system.  Not too long ago I was a sedentary, slightly-overweight, South Asian man entering my thirties.  I had some ambiguous family history of diabetes [...]

The personal genome and the practice of cardiovascular medicine.

November 21, 2010

The personal genome and the practice of cardiovascular medicine.
Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2010 Nov;6(4):13-20
Authors: Marian AJ
Recent advances in the DNA sequencing techniques have made it possible to sequen…