News tagged with dna mutations
Researchers discover enzyme behind breast cancer mutations
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered a human enzyme responsible for causing DNA mutations found in the majority of breast cancers. The discovery of this enzyme – called APOBEC3B – may change the way ...
Cancer
Feb 06, 2013 |
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New mutations driving malignant melanoma discovered
Two new mutations that collectively occur in 71 percent of malignant melanoma tumors have been discovered in what scientists call the "dark matter" of the cancer genome, where cancer-related mutations haven't ...
Cancer
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Genes and their regulatory 'tags' conspire to promote rheumatoid arthritis, study finds
In one of the first genome-wide studies to hunt for both genes and their regulatory "tags" in patients suffering from a common disease, researchers have found a clear role for the tags in mediating genetic ...
Genetics
Jan 20, 2013 |
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Genomic 'hotspots' offer clues to causes of autism, other disorders
An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has discovered that "random" mutations in the genome are not quite so random after all. Their study, ...
Genetics
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Rare genetic mutation triples Alzheimer's risk
A gene so powerful it nearly triples the risk of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by an international team including researchers from Mayo Clinic. It is the most potent genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's identified ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Nov 14, 2012 |
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Epigenetic analysis of stomach cancer finds new disease subtypes
Researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have identified numerous new subtypes of gastric cancer that are triggered by environmental factors.
Cancer
Oct 17, 2012 |
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Diagnostic chest radiation before 30 may increase breast cancer risk
Women carrying a mutation in the BRCA1- or BRCA2- genes (which control the suppression of breast and ovarian cancer) who have undergone diagnostic radiation to the chest before the age of 30 are more likely to develop breast ...
Cancer
Sep 06, 2012 |
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Genomic study shows colon and rectal tumors constitute a single type of cancer
The pattern of genomic alterations in colon and rectal tissues is the same regardless of anatomic location or origin within the colon or the rectum, leading researchers to conclude that these two cancer types ...
Cancer
Jul 18, 2012 |
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Scientists decode DNA to find breast tumor signatures that predict treatment response
Decoding the DNA of patients with advanced breast cancer has allowed scientists to identify distinct cancer "signatures" that could help predict which women are most likely to benefit from estrogen-lowering ...
Genetics
Jun 10, 2012 |
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Landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer
In a study published today in Nature, researchers describe nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40.
Cancer
May 16, 2012 |
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Rare muscular dystrophy gene mutations discovered
(Medical Xpress) -- Research co-led by Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has revealed gene mutations that account for 15 per cent of all babies born with Walker-Warburg ...
Genetics
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Experts identify critical genes mutated in stomach cancer
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore and National Cancer Centre of Singapore, has identified hundreds of novel genes that are mutated in ...
Genetics
Apr 08, 2012 |
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Using the body's own immune system in the fight against cancer
DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Medical research
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Sweeping genetic analysis of rare disease yields common mechanism of hypertension
Analyzing all the genes of dozens of people suffering from a rare form of hypertension, Yale University researchers have discovered a new mechanism that regulates the blood pressure of all humans.
Genetics
Jan 22, 2012 |
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'Pulverized' chromosomes linked to cancer?
They are the Robinson Crusoes of the intracellular world -- lone chromosomes, whole and hardy, stranded outside the nucleus where their fellow chromosomes reside. Such castaways, each confined to its own "micronucleus," ...
Cancer
Jan 19, 2012 |
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