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A research article highlights a method for prioritizing variants in miRNAs by their functional significance. Two Thematic Reviews are included in a special section of the Journal of Lipid Research. The new research findings include the observation that a variant in the promoter of the miRNA let-7 may contribute to...

The article by Jim Evans discusses the importance of the involvement of knowledgeable health care providers in communicating complex genomic information to patients and research subjects. Jim Evans has published a Viewpoint article in JAMA, with coauthors Amy L. McGuire, JD, PhD, and Laurence B. McCullough, PhD, at the Baylor...

Triangle Business Journal on Tuesday unveiled 29 finalists for its 2013 Health Care Heroes Awards. Chuck and colleagues have also recently published an article in The Oncologist The Health Care Heroes finalists were honored at an awards dinner on March 21 at the Renaissance Raleigh North Hills Hotel. “Our winners...

Karen Mohlke is corresponding author on a paper reporting low-frequency variants in three new genes associated with abnormal insulin production or processing. Karen Mohlke is corresponding author on a paper reporting low-frequency variants in three new genes associated with abnormal insulin production or processing. This work, which was done in...

An investigation into diabetes-related outcomes in a rat model, with senior author William Valdar, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at UNC, and first author Leah Solberg Woods, PhD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin, has made the editor’s pick in this month’s Physiological Genomics, a journal of the American Physiological...

Ned Sharpless and colleagues have developed a mouse model that makes it possible to visualize tumor growth by means of a “knocked-in” p16 gene linked to a luciferase reporter. This work is described in a paper in the January 17, 2013, issue of Cell. Ned was interviewed about the study...

Title of the paper is “MicroRNA-27b is a regulatory hub in lipid metabolism and is altered in dyslipidemia,” published in the February 2013 issue. Praveen Sethupathy is Co-Senior Author of a paper entititled “MicroRNA-27b is a regulatory hub in lipid metabolism and is altered in dyslipidemia,” which is being highlighted...

“By expanding the field’s focus from common to rare diseases, it may be possible to realize the promise of public health genomics by identifying those millions of individuals who unknowingly carry mutations that confer a dramatic predisposition to preventable diseases.” Jim Evans, Jonathan Berg, and Terry Magnuson are authors, along...

Paper titled “Site-Specific Silencing of Regulatory Elements as a Mechanism of X Inactivation.” Mauro Calabrese, a postdoctoral fellow in Terry Magnuson’s lab, is first-author of an article in Cell entitled “Site-Specific Silencing of Regulatory Elements as a Mechanism of X Inactivation.” Coauthors with current or previous Department of Genetics affiliations...

“In October 2012, the AAAS Council elected 701 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2013 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The new Fellows will receive a...