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A comment on ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery. Parent comment

Re:ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Ge... by anonred on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @01:50PM (#12175004)
How is that different than sequencing genes from individuals and correlating that to their (fairly detailed) recorded medical history? If I'm not mistaken, that's what's currently being done.
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Re:ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Ge... by aylons on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:25PM (#12175326)
There's a lot of value on doing this, but GP idea has its value. For starters, there's some survivorship bias, as you cannot map people who have already died.

You may also want to gather more detailed data that the medical history usually conveys, such as sub-clinical conditions and other non-pathological differences.

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