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# Expanded biobanks, education, and genomics research investments - Saudi Arabia transforming healthcare

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# Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Saphetor announce a new partnership to deliver tertiary analysis for comprehensive interpretation of nanopore sequencing

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 In a historic milestone for Latin American healthcare, our partner Gencell LATAM has officially become the first diagnostic laboratory in Colombia to achieve prestigious CAP (College of American Pathologists) accreditation in molecular biology and...

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##### [How VarSome Clinical powered Gencell to become Colombia’s first CAP-accredited molecular genetics lab](https://news.varsome.com/en/how-varsome-clinical-powered-gencell-to-become-colombias-first-cap-accredited-molecular-genetics-lab)

 By [Lyndsey Fletcher](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/lyndsey-fletcher#blog-listing-section) on October 15, 2026

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 Accurate variant interpretation depends on access to representative population frequency data. In VarSome v13.18, we’ve expanded our population frequency resources through the integration of KRIBB KOVA and ToMMo jMorp, which offer population allele...

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##### [Expanding population frequency data in VarSome: Introducing Korean and Japanese frequency databases](https://news.varsome.com/en/expanding-population-frequency-data-in-varsome-introducing-korean-and-japanese-frequency-databases)

 By [Lyndsey Fletcher](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/lyndsey-fletcher#blog-listing-section) on August 7, 2026

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 In recent decades, advances in technology, healthcare, sanitation, and nutrition have led to a dramatic increase in human life expectancy. Many diseases that once claimed millions of lives are now treatable or even entirely preventable, and improved...

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##### [World Population Day 2026](https://news.varsome.com/en/world-population-day-2026)

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 Variants of uncertain significance (VUS) are the most frequent outcome in germline genetic testing, with almost 30% of patients receiving only VUS results. This delays clinical decisions and forces manual review, complicating the interpretation of...

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##### [Reclassification of VUS with VarSome](https://news.varsome.com/en/reclassification-of-variants-of-uncertain-significance-through-integrated-data-aggregation-and-community-curation-in-varsome)

 By [Lyndsey Fletcher](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/lyndsey-fletcher#blog-listing-section) on June 19, 2026

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 Each year, International Programmers’ Day is marked on the 256th day of the calendar. This number is chosen because 256 is both the total number of values an eight-bit byte can represent and the largest power of 2 below 365. Depending on the year,...

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##### [International Programmers' Day 2025](https://news.varsome.com/en/international-programmers-day-2025)

 By [Jason Armstrong](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/jason-armstrong#blog-listing-section) on September 12, 2025

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##### [Liquid Biopsy in SCLC: Steps Toward Routine Clinical Use](https://news.varsome.com/en/liquid-biopsy-in-sclc-steps-toward-routine-clinical-use)

 By [Xanthippi Papakonstanti](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/xanthippi-papakonstanti#blog-listing-section) on August 5, 2025

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 Wong M, Liew B, Hum M, Lee NY, Lee ASG. Benchmarking of variant calling software for whole-exome sequencing using gold standard datasets. Sci Rep. 2025;15(1):13697. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-97047-7

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##### [Benchmarking Variant Calling Tools - Wong et al., 2025](https://news.varsome.com/en/benchmarking-variant-calling-tools)

 By [Jason Armstrong](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/jason-armstrong#blog-listing-section) on May 13, 2025

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 Genomics and the Future of Maternal and Newborn Health: Closing Gaps, Saving Lives

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##### [World Health Day 2025 - Genomics in Maternal & Newborn Health](https://news.varsome.com/en/whd-2025-0)

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##### [Gene fusion detection: Liquid biopsies and classification of co-mutations](https://news.varsome.com/en/gene-fusion-detection-liquid-biopsies-and-classification-of-co-mutations)

 By [Xanthippi Papakonstanti](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/xanthippi-papakonstanti#blog-listing-section) on April 5, 2024

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 Saphetor caught up with Constantia Aristidou from The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING), that highlighted the breadth and scope of VarSome Clinical in their recently published paper; Exploring the Genetic Causality of Discordant...

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##### [CING studies ABT with the help of VarSome Clinical](https://news.varsome.com/en/cing-studies-abt-with-varsome-clinical)

 By [Xanthippi Papakonstanti](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/xanthippi-papakonstanti#blog-listing-section) on August 8, 2023

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##### [Presenting Video: VarSome.com - The Human Genomics Community](https://news.varsome.com/en/presenting-varsome-the-human-genomics-community)

 By [Tomas Kucera](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/tomas-kucera#blog-listing-section) on August 1, 2019

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 New York and Lausanne, Switzerland - January 10, 2019 - Saphetor SA, the creator of VarSome, announced today a partnership with the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, the creator of Precision Medicine Knowledgebase...

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##### [PMKB now available on VarSome!](https://news.varsome.com/en/pmkb-now-available-on-varsome)

 By [Tomas Kucera](https://news.varsome.com/en/author/tomas-kucera#blog-listing-section) on January 10, 2019

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