News tagged with genetic factors


Genetic 'hotspot' for breast cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have identified a new genetic hotspot for breast cancer.


International study identifies gene variants associated with early heart attack

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The largest study ever completed of genetic factors associated with heart attacks has identified nine genetic regions - three not previously described - that appear to increase the risk for early-onset myocardial infarction. ...


Study finds genetic link between sleep disorders and depression in young children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Sleep was the first to use twin data to examine the longitudinal link between sleep problems and depression. Results of this study demonstrate that sleep problems predict later ...


Obesity starts in the head? 6 newly discovered genes for obesity have a neural effect

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The international GIANT (Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Parameters) consortium works on the discovery of obesity genes. So far, the scientists have analyzed two million DNA variations in 15 genome-wide association ...


Genetic markers identified for alcohol response

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the UCSF Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have identified a region on the human genome that appears to determine how strongly drinkers feel the effects of alcohol and thus how prone they are to alcohol ...


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Caste in the colony: How fate is determined between workers and queens

Biology /

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

"The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms…the exploitation of one part of society by the other". – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.



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