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Why bad immunity genes survive: Study implicates arms race between genes and germs

University of Utah biologists found new evidence why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs – even though some of those ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Length of flanking repeat region and timing affect genetic material

In children with genomic disorders, often a gamete – egg or sperm – has gone disastrously awry with either a duplication or deletion of genetic material that results in physical and neurological problems for the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using a mathematical model to evaluate microsatellite genotyping from low-quality DNA

Noninvasive sampling has been used in studies of endangered animals. It has the advantage of obtaining samples without affecting the target animals. However, the quality of DNA obtained by such methods is ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers sequence human methylome at single base-pair resolution

DNA methylation plays an important role in many processes such as animal development, X-chromosome inactivation, and carcinogenesis. Understanding the mechanisms and functions of DNA methylation and how it varies from tissue ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetics may not help you live to old age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people living to over 90 have avoided the three major causes of death: heart disease, cancers, and type 2 diabetes. Several areas on the human genome have been identified as being implicated ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Sensitivity to alcohol odors may indicate a genetic predisposition to alcohol dependence

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are DNA sequence variations that occur when a single nucleotide in the genome sequence is altered. Prior research suggested an association between SNPs in a gene that encodes aspects ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Critics cast doubt on recent longevity gene study findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study of centenarians (reported in PhysOrg on July 1st) that linked a number of gene variants to longevity has now been questioned by other scientists, who suggest a DNA chip known as 610-Quad, used in ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Genetic differences may influence joint pain among women taking lifesaving breast cancer drugs

Aromatase inhibitor-associated arthralgia (AIAA) is a major side effect in breast cancer survivors, producing joint pain so severe that as many as ten percent of women discontinue their therapy prematurely while undergoing ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cosmopolitan eels

A genetic survey shows very little structure to moray eel populations in the Indo-Pacific. How, then, did 150 species of eel arise there?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Classifying molar pregnancy

Researchers from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have used short tandem repeat (STR) genotyping and p57 immunohistochemistry to distinguish hydatidiform moles. The related report by Murphy et al "Molecular Genotyping ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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