News tagged with genetic links
Three new genetic links to breast cancer identified
(Medical Xpress) -- An international team of researchers has identified three new genetic loci associated with an increased susceptibility to breast cancer. As described in their paper published in Nature Ge ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Research team discovers genes and disease mechanisms behind a common form of muscular dystrophy
Continuing a series of groundbreaking discoveries begun in 2010 about the genetic causes of the third most common form of inherited muscular dystrophy, an international team of researchers led by a scientist at Fred Hutchinson ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Possible link between autism and airway abnormality
Autism and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) are currently diagnosed primarily through subjective observation of autistic behaviors. However, new research, presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Women with strong family history of breast cancer, no genetic link, are not fully utilising services to their reduce ris
Women with a strong family history of breast cancer, but no genetic link, are not consistent in how they perceive their risk or in their efforts to manage the risk, leading some women to not adequately access breast cancer ...
Sep 25, 2011 |
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New genetic links to MS also play roles in other autoimmune diseases
Results of the largest genomics study of multiple sclerosis patients ever undertaken have identified more than two dozen new genetic variants linked to disease risk, including some previously implicated in other autoimmune ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Discovers new asthma gene in African-Americans, replicates four others
A new national collaboration of asthma genetics researchers has revealed a novel gene associated with the disease in African-Americans, according to a new scientific report.
Aug 01, 2011 |
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First genetic mutation linked to heart failure in pregnant women
Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have identified the first genetic mutation ever associated with a mysterious and potentially devastating form of heart disease that affects ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Potential cause of severe sleep disorder discovered, implications for Parkinson's disease
Researchers at the University of Toronto are the first to indentify a potential cause for a severe sleep disorder that has been closely linked to Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 15, 2011 |
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New research uncovers genetic link between emphysema, lung cancer
A gene linked to emphysema also can be a factor for developing lung cancer unrelated to cigarette smoking, UT Southwestern Medical Center research indicates. Smoking was the only known risk factor previously associated with ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists from the UCLA Division of Life Sciences have reported the first quantitative evidence for an evolutionary link between habitat and body size in turtles and tortoises.
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Resurrecting the so-called 'depression gene'
University of Michigan Health System researchers have found new evidence that our genes help determine our susceptibility to depression.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Genetic relationship between Hungarian and Turkish apricots confirmed
Apricots are important to Turkey, the country where more apricot crops are grown and exported than anywhere in the world. Looking to unlock the mystery of apricots' origins and increase crop production, scientists ...
Dec 29, 2010 |
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Modeling autism in a dish
A collaborative effort between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego, successfully used human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Gene flaw causes small brain - scientists
Microcephaly, a disorder which leads to an abnormally small brain, has been traced in part to a flaw in a gene called WDR62 that plays a key role in the development of neurons, according to studies published on Sunday by ...
Oct 03, 2010 |
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Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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