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The Genomics Education Programme (GEP) is the NHS’s method of ensuring its staff have the knowledge, skills and experience to ensure that the health service remains a world leader in genomic and precision medicine – particularly for NHS staff involved in the 100,000 Genomes Project.

It provides free, online resources from short, online modules to Master’s degrees. Click on the link above to find out more about genomics education and training for NHS staff.

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Study finds that genes play a role in empathy March 12, 2018
Empathy has two parts: the ability to recognize another person’s thoughts and feelings, and the ability to respond with an appropriate emotion to someone else’s thoughts and feelings. The first part is called ‘cognitive empathy’ and the second part ‘affective empathy’. Fifteen years ago, a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge developed the […]
Scientists link genes to brain anatomy in autism February 26, 2018
Previous studies have reported differences in brain structure of autistic individuals. However, until now, scientists have not known which genes are linked to these differences. The team at the Autism Research Centre analysed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans from more than 150 autistic children and compared them with MRI scans from similarly aged children […]
Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations February 19, 2018
Researchers were able to use the tooth of a woman found in a cave on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas to sequence the first complete ancient human genome from the Caribbean. The woman lived at some point between the 8th and 10th centuries, at least 500 years before Columbus made landfall in the […]

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