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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus have developed a new computational method for studying genetic and environmental interactions and how they influence disease risk.

The research, published Jan. 7 in The American Journal of Human Genetics, makes the process of finding these interactions much less difficult and demonstrates their...

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NEW YORK – A clinical research study recently launched by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian, and the New York Genome Center, with support from Illumina, aims to determine the diagnostic value of clinical whole-genome sequencing in a variety of disease types.

The initiative, supported with an undisclosed amount of funding from the participating institutions, was announced ...

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In this episode of Back to Health, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Member Lisa Newman, M.D. (left) and Vivian Bea, M.D. discuss the importance of early detection and diagnosis for breast cancer within minority populations. They focus on why there is such a disparity in access to care and how to...