The question of genetic vs environmental influences plays a major role in research into brain aging, with researchers from UNSW Sydney's Centre for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) revealing new insights into one of the hallmarks ...
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Excessive drinking is not only the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, there is also a very strong genetic influence on the risk of developing alcohol dependence (AD). Given its serious public-health ...
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In a major study published today, researchers at deCODE genetics use whole-genome data from 14,000 people from across the population of Iceland, including 1500 sets of parents and children, to provide the most detailed portrait ...
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The face and brain develop in coordination, with each influencing the other, beginning in the embryo and continuing through adolescence. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found distinct differences between the ...
Oct 20, 2011
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A new King's College London study suggests that genes account for nearly 50 per cent of the differences between whether children are socially mobile or not.
Jul 17, 2017
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(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course.
Jan 19, 2012
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Being overweight in childhood increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in later life, according to the findings of a new study that analyzed genetic data on over 400,000 individuals. The study, co-led by researchers ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Genes that influence people's health also shape how effectively they think, a study shows.
Jan 26, 2016
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New research has uncovered compelling evidence that genetics plays a major role in how children look at the world and whether they have a preference for gazing at people's eyes and faces or at objects.
Jul 12, 2017
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Humans are not born as blank slates for nature to write on. Neither are they behaving on genes alone.
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