News tagged with genetic risk
Genetic risks for type 2 diabetes span multiple ethnicities
A recent large and comprehensive analysis of 50,000 genetic variants across 2,000 genes linked to cardiovascular and metabolic function has identified four genes associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and six independent disease-associated ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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The dark path to antisocial personality disorder
With no lab tests to guide the clinician, psychiatric diagnostics is challenging and controversial. Antisocial personality disorder is defined as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 07, 2012 |
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DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomy 18 and trisomy 13
A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy with Down syndrome can also identify two additional chromosome abnormalities: trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome). The ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Genetic study links body clock receptor to diabetes
A study published in Nature Genetics today has found new evidence for a link between the body clock hormone melatonin and type 2 diabetes. The study found that people who carry rare genetic mutations in the receptor for me ...
Jan 29, 2012 |
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Large-scale study of East Asian individuals reveals a number of previously overlooked genetic variants
Broad, population-based investigations known as genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are now a standard tool for helping scientists to pinpoint genetic variations that can contribute to disease risk or pathology. ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Women with certain type of ovarian cancer and BRCA gene mutation have improved survival at 5 years
Among women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, patients having a germline (gene change in a reproductive cell that could be passed to offspring) mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes was associated with improved 5-year ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Gender differences in liver cancer risk explained by small changes in genome
Men are four times more likely to develop liver cancer compared to women, a difference attributed to the sex hormones androgen and estrogen. Although this gender difference has been known for a long time, ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Researcher contends multiple sclerosis is not a disease of the immune system
An article to be published Friday (Dec. 23) in the December 2011 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that multiple sclerosis, long viewed as primarily an autoimmune disease, is not actually a disease of the im ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's drug candidate may be first to prevent disease progression
A new drug candidate may be the first capable of halting the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer's disease, based on the findings of a study published today in PLoS One.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Study participants at risk for Alzheimer's talk about their genetic test results
If you had a family history of developing Alzheimer's disease, would you take a genetic test that would give you more information about your chances?
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Risk for developing new cancer in other breast increased for survivors with BRCA mutation
Breast cancer survivors who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation are at high risk for developing contralateral breast cancer — a new primary tumor in the other breast — and certain women within this group of ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Scientists perform first Asian genome-wide association study on spine disease
Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Gu Jieruo, a rheumatologist at the 3rd Affiliated Hospital ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Unraveling how a mutation can lead to psychiatric illness
In recent years, scientists have discovered several genetic mutations associated with greater risk of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One such mutation, known as DISC1 — an abbreviation ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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EHJ paper underlines need for improved links between cardiologists and psychiatrists
People taking anti-psychotic drugs and anti-depressant drugs have a much higher risk of dying during an acute coronary event of a fatal arrhythmia than the rest of the population, finds a Finnish study published in the European He ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Almac devises test to detect likelihood of colon cancer recurring
The findings of Almac scientists' research have been published in the online version of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) ahead of the print edition of the journal. The JCO is the peer-reviewed publication o ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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