{"id":495604,"date":"2010-03-31T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/03\/31\/gold-rush-is-over-for-simple-gene-discoveries\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:09:23","slug":"%e2%80%98gold-rush-is-over%e2%80%99-for-simple-gene-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/495604","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gold Rush Is Over\u2019 for Simple Gene Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A federal judge’s ruling earlier this week that some patents on human genes are invalid because they were related to isolated DNA “found in nature” is being watched closely by other holders of such patents of human genes. (Read more<\/a> from the WSJ about the case.)<\/p>\n

The genes in dispute involve BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes that many geneticists say are particularly important because they are such powerful markers for diagnosing risk of a hereditary form of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

But how many discoveries of other single gene mutations that powerful are likely to come in the future? <\/p>\n

Probably pretty rare, according to Misha Angrist<\/a>, a professor at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. “The gold rush is over largely,” he told the Health Blog.<\/p>\n

Instead, science is pointing increasingly to the importance of combinations of multiple genes in predicting and potentially combating disease, say geneticists.<\/p>\n

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A federal judge’s ruling earlier this week that some patents on human genes are invalid because they were related to isolated DNA “found in nature” is being watched closely by other holders of such patents of human genes. (Read more from the WSJ about the case.) The genes in dispute involve BRCA1 and BRCA2, two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}