Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological condition that affects approximately two percent of people around the world. Although several genes have been linked to multiple concurring conditions of ASD, the process that ...
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What if a failed leukemia drug could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease? A team at the University of Kentucky recently led an effort to investigate this hypothesis. Their results were published today in the journal, Human ...
Apr 3, 2015
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In a breakthrough in the understanding of how cancer spreads, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a substance secreted by lung cancer cells that enables them to metastasize, beginning ...
Feb 4, 2015
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23andMe, Inc. today announced the publication of the first ever genome-wide association study of motion sickness.
Feb 3, 2015
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Approximately one-fourth of the 3,386 patients whose DNA was submitted for clinical whole exome testing received a diagnosis related to a known genetic disease, often ending a long search for answers for them and their parents, ...
Oct 19, 2014
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Fatigue, weight gain, chills, hair loss, anxiety, excessive perspiration—these symptoms are a few of the signs that the thyroid gland, which regulates the body's heart rate and plays a crucial role in its metabolism, has ...
Sep 22, 2014
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Another mystery of the human body has been solved by scientists who have identified how a molecular motor essential for human development works. They have also pinpointed why mutations in genes linked to this motor can lead ...
Sep 9, 2014
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The largest ever genome wide association study on hearing ability has identified the salt-inducible kinase 3 (SIK3) gene as a key influencer in how well we can hear, particularly at high frequencies. This significant new ...
Aug 5, 2014
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Children with rare mutations in two genes are about four times more likely to develop severe scoliosis than their peers with normal versions of the genes, scientists have found. The research at Washington University School ...
Jun 13, 2014
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Researchers have discovered that mutations in one of the brain's key genes could be responsible for impaired mental function in children born with an intellectual disability.
Jun 10, 2014
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