News tagged with inheritance

Gene mutations in fruit flies help shed light on inherited intellectual disability in humans

Clumsy fruit flies with poor posture are helping an international team of scientists understand inherited intellectual disability in humans – and vice versa.

Genetics created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Epigenetic reprogramming: Research discovers how epigenetic information could be inherited

New research reveals a potential way for how parents' experiences could be passed to their offspring's genes. The research was published today, 25 January, in the journal Science.

Genetics created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How mitochondrial DNA defects cause inherited deafness

(Medical Xpress) -- Yale scientists have discovered the molecular pathway by which maternally inherited deafness appears to occur: Mitochondrial DNA mutations trigger a signaling cascade, resulting in programmed ...

Medical research created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plastic products and jet fuel exposures raising incidences of 'epigenetic transgenerational inheritance'

Washington State University researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring.

Genetics created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The influence of the mother: Maternal epigenetic inheritance

(Medical Xpress) -- A study published in Genes and Development from scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research pinpoints the importance of maternal epigenetic influences during ...

Genetics created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adding up autism risks

The causes of autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are complex, and contain elements of both nature (genes) and the environment. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Autism shows ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rigged to explode? Inherited mutation links exploding chromosomes to cancer

An inherited mutation in a gene known as the guardian of the genome is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some particularly aggressive types of cancer, scientists at the European Molecular Biology ...

Cancer created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Out of the shadows: Freeing families from mitochondrial inherited disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Mitochondrial inherited diseases (MIDs) can devastate families, but there is hope in the form of new techniques to prevent them passing from mother to child. Anjana Ahuja speaks to the ...

Medical research created Jun 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic testing for inherited cardiac conditions is 'patchy' in Europe

While genetic inheritance is known to play a role in the multifactorial development of most diseases of the heart, there are also a number of clearly diagnosed cardiac conditions which owe their development to quite specific ...

Cardiology created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug shown to improve sight for patients with inherited blindness

A clinical trial led by Newcastle University shows that the drug, idebenone (Catena), improved the vision and perception of colour in patients with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON). The inherited condition means ...

Ophthalmology created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical genetics team pinpoints causes of inherited diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- A child’s diagnosis with a congenital deformity or developmental delay raises challenging questions: Could the problem be inherited? What’s the prognosis? If other children are born to the same ...

Genetics created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time.

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