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[MEDIA RELEASE] What is Your Breast Cancer Risk Score? Genetic Tool Predicts Breast Cancer Risks in Asians

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A ground-breaking genetic study in Asian women led by Malaysian scientists in collaboration with Singapore and the University of Cambridge revealed that a genetics tool developed to help European women assess breast cancer risk also works in Asian women.

[RESEARCH INSIDER] Self-harm: What do our genes have to do with it?

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Research Insider this week gets up close with Kai Xiang Lim who is in his second year pursuing a PhD in Social, Genetics and Developmental Psychiatry Research at King's College London, UK. He uses genetic information to investigate the underlying causes of self-harm behaviours and their relationships with mental health conditions.

[RESEARCH] COVID-19: Genetic network analysis traced origins of the pandemic

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Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early “evolutionary paths” of COVID-19 in humans – as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America – using genetic network techniques. The research also revealed three distinct “variants” of COVID-19 – type A, B and C.