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Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...


Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Do stressful situations make your blood pressure rise? If so, your phosducin gene could be to blame according to a team of researchers, at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ...


Bad driving may have genetic basis, study finds

Bad driving may have genetic basis, study finds

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.


Cancer predisposition from genetic variation shows strong gender bias

Cancer predisposition from genetic variation shows strong gender bias

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer predisposition resulting from the presence of a specific gene variant shows a strong gender bias, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have demonstrated.


Researchers identify gene variant linked to glaucoma

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the National Eye Institute, has discovered gene variants for glaucoma in a black population. The finding could ...


Are the monoamines involved in shaping conduct disorders?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Antisocial and aggressive behaviours represent a widespread and expensive social problem. Recent research has convincingly shown that there is a strong interaction between genetic inheritance and environment for development ...


Alzheimer's Gene Alters Brain Function in Young Adults

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The gene most closely linked to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease affects brain activity in young adults -- much earlier in life than previously reported -- according to researchers at Duke ...


Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...


Researchers identify gene variant linked to effectiveness of plavix

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a common gene variant carried by as many as a third of the general population that is believed to play a major role in determining why people do ...


Researchers develop innovative method to detect genetic causes of complex diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an analytical technique to detect the multiple genetic variations that contribute to complex disease syndromes such as diabetes, asthma and cancer, which ...


Diabetes gene raises odds of lower birth weight

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pediatric researchers have found that a gene previously shown to be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes also predisposes children to having a lower birth weight. The finding sheds light on a possible genetic influence ...


Gene linked to increasingly common type of blood cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

California and Arizona researchers have identified a gene variant that carries nearly twice the risk of developing an increasingly common type of blood cancer, according to a study published online today by the science journal ...


Scientists discover novel mechanism that increases colorectal cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Finnish Academy Professors Lauri Aaltonen and Jussi Taipale have identified and described a mechanism whereby a single-base change in the human genome increases the risk of colorectal cancer.


Geography and history shape genetic differences in humans

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New research indicates that natural selection may shape the human genome much more slowly than previously thought. Other factors -- the movements of humans within and among continents, the expansions and contractions of populations, ...


The neurobiology of musicality related to the intrinsic attachment behavior?

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Music is social communication between individuals -- humming of lullabies attach infant to parent and singing or playing music adds croup cohesion. The neurobiology of music perception and production is likely to be related ...