Posts Tagged ‘MUTYH’
My Gene Counsel Releases New Reports on 23andMe Findings
My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides personalized, easy-to-understand web-based genetic counseling, today announced that the company has expanded its database of genetic resources to include content for at-home genetic tests related to MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP), familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), and Parkinson’s disease.
Read MoreTweetChat: Lynch Syndrome And Other Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndromes
To conclude Lynch Syndrome and Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we held a tweetchat, #GenCSM, with our phenomenal co-hosts Georgia Hurst and Amy Byer Shainman and special guest Heather Hampel, MS, LGC. Hampel is a genetic counselor at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research interests include screening all colorectal and endometrial cancer patients for Lynch…
Read MoreRecessive Mutations in MSH3 Found to Cause Colon Cancer
A research team at the University of Bonn in Germany has published a new study regarding a mismatch repair gene called MSH3. This discovery is unique in that MSH3 is 1) inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and 2) causes the development of multiple colon polyps, which is in contrast to most other known mismatch…
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