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Predicting risk of stroke from one's genetic blueprint
Feb 25, 2009 |
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A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual's lifetime risk of stroke, finds a study from the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). Using genetic information from 569 hospital patients, the researchers ...
Common gene variants increase risk of hypertension, may lead to new therapies
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A new study has identified the first common gene variants associated with an increased incidence of hypertension - a significant risk factor for heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. The report receiving ...
The nonsense in our genes: 1 in 200 human genes superfluous?
Feb 05, 2009 |
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1 in 200 of our human genes can be inactivated with no detectable effect on our health. A study by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists raises new questions about the effects of gene loss on our wellbeing and evolution.
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Researchers discover new schizophrenia gene
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders. Reporting in the Jan. 9 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, the team d ...
Scientists propose new direction in the search for genetic causes of schizophrenia
Feb 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Researchers ID gene linked to lung cancer
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins, as part of a large, multi-institutional study, have found one gene variant that is linked to an increased risk of lung cancer. The study will be published in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics.
Obesity genetics
Oct 16, 2007 |
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New evidence that genetics plays a key role in obesity is published today in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. The findings relate to the genetics of modern Pima Indians who have an unu ...
Link uncovered between variation in humans with extreme body mass and abnormal splicing
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Today researchers report new insights into how genetic variation may create phenotypic differences between individuals. This study, which investigates the influence of mutations associated with obesity on the mechanism of ...
Researchers identify 'regulatory' genetic sequences that may predict risk for prostate cancer
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel genetic mechanism that may govern an individual's risk of developing prostate cancer.
International study identifies gene variants associated with early heart attack
Feb 08, 2009 |
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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. ...
Gene associated with reduced mortality from acute lung injury
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Denver have discovered a gene that is associated with improved survival among patients with acute lung injury. Acute lung injury (ALI) is often caused by ...
SNPs linked with prostate cancer confirmed in Japanese men too
Sep 02, 2009 |
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A third of the previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, associated with prostate cancer in men of European or African ancestry were also associated with prostate cancer in a Japanese population, according ...
Lung cancer risk increases with expression of specific genes
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A recent study published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology determined that variations of specific genetic markers identified in previous research, or SNPs, may indicate a greater lung cancer risk i ...
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