News tagged with chromosome 15
New discovery could lead to treatment for Angelman syndrome
Results of a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may help pave the way to a treatment for a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism.
Dec 21, 2011 |
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New technology helps to find gene responsible for Kufs disease
Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the University of Melbourne have used innovative new technologies to identify the gene responsible for a rare but fatal hereditary brain disorder. The ...
May 05, 2011 |
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How much people smoke and who gets lung cancer gene-influenced
Your DNA influences how much you smoke and whether you will develop lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to an international team of researchers led by Washington University ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Impaired brain plasticity linked to Angelman syndrome learning deficits
How might disruption of a single gene in the brain cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder? Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2009 |
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Genomic variations in African-American and white populations
Deletions, duplications or rearrangements of genomic regions in the human genomes produce differences in gene copy numbers, referred to as copy number variations (CNV). Those variations account for a substantial portion of ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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