Genetics
Newly identified genes for depression may lead to new treatments
More than 200 genes linked to depression have been newly identified in a worldwide study led by UCL researchers.
Jan 10, 2024
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Genetics
A shared past for East Africa's hunter-gatherers
Languages that involve "clicks" are relatively rare worldwide but are spoken by several groups in Africa. The Khoisan language family includes a handful of these click languages, spoken by hunter-gatherer groups in southern ...
Feb 18, 2019
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Cardiology
Genetic risk for fatal blood clots identified in IBD patients
Blood clots are the biggest cause of death in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. In a retrospective study recently published in the journal Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai ...
Nov 11, 2020
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Genetics
Researchers use new genetic mapping technique to identify two genes that can cause vision loss in seniors
Researchers at the University of Michigan pinpointed two interacting genes that, when defective, can greatly increase the risk of macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision problems in the elderly.
Sep 16, 2013
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Overweight & Obesity
Why are we in the middle of an obesity epidemic? Here is a possible explanation
Since 2010, the number of people with obesity in Denmark has doubled, while other countries have seen an even greater increase. But what started this, and what is driving it? Professor Emeritus Thorkild I. A. Sørensen outlines ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Cardiology
Genetic study ties higher alcohol consumption to increased stroke and PAD risk
Higher alcohol consumption was shown to be associated with an increased risk of having a stroke or developing peripheral artery disease, according to new research published today in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, ...
May 5, 2020
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Diabetes
Modest effect of statins on diabetes risk and bodyweight related to mechanism of action
The mechanism by which statins increase the risk of type 2 diabetes has been investigated in a large-scale analysis from an international team led by researchers from UCL and the University of Glasgow, using information from ...
Sep 23, 2014
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Genetics
New method helps link genomic variation to protein production
Scientists have adopted a novel laboratory approach for determining the effect of genetic variation on the efficiency of the biological process that translates a gene's DNA sequence into a protein, such as hemoglobin, according ...
Nov 6, 2012
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Genetics
Large genetic study links tendency to undervalue future rewards with ADHD, obesity
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found a genetic signature for delay discounting—the tendency to undervalue future rewards—that overlaps with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...
Dec 11, 2017
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Genetics
Single-cell sequencing leads to a new era of cancer research
BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell. In the papers, which were ...
Mar 2, 2012
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