Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Thousands of single changes in the nucleotides that make up the human genome have been associated with an increased risk of developing cancer.