News tagged with genetic links
Clinical study to probe genetic link to Salmonella diseases
Oct 01, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Depending on your genes, Salmonella can mean a lot more than food poisoning. In a new clinical study, researchers at The Rockefeller University Hospital are narrowing in on the genetic link that predisposes ...
Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 03, 2009 |
4.1 / 5 (10) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA study suggests that further waves of prehistoric immigration are waiting to be discovered. Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, ...
First genetic link between reptile and human heart evolution
Sep 02, 2009 |
5 / 5 (10) |
8
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have traced the evolution of the four-chambered human heart to a common genetic factor linked to the development of hearts in turtles and other ...
Gene variation is 'major genetic determinant of psoriasis'
Aug 27, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
A specific genetic region that has been increasingly identified as the strongest genetic link to psoriasis has an even more significant role in the chronic skin disease than has been suspected, University of Utah medical ...
Childhood obesity link to parents
Jul 13, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
The relationships between children and their parent of the same gender in the earliest years of life could be the key to understanding why some young people become obese and others do not, new research conducted by the EarlyBird ...
Researchers discover genetic cause for primary biliary cirrhosis
May 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Researchers have discovered a novel molecular path that predisposes patients to develop primary biliary cirrhosis, a disease that mainly affects women and slowly destroys their livers. Primary biliary cirrhosis has no known ...
A genetic link to premature ejaculation
May 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Premature ejaculation can be embarrassing, but a new study suggests that it might be a genetic disorder.
Obesity gene associated with susceptibility to polycystic ovary syndrome
Mar 17, 2009 |
2 / 5 (1) |
0
Researchers have shown that a gene implicated in the development of obesity is also associated with susceptibility to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Re-shaping the family: What happens when parents seek siblings of their donor-conceived children
Feb 24, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
Parents who have conceived children with the help of sperm or egg donors and then try to find the donors and also other children conceived with the donors' help, often end up creating new forms of extended families, according ...
Scientists propose new direction in the search for genetic causes of schizophrenia
Feb 06, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
A new study shows that schizophrenia is caused, at least in part, by large, rare structural changes in DNA referred to as copy number variants (CNVs) - not the tiny, single letter alterations (single nucleotide polymorphisms ...
