News tagged with predisposition

Genetic risk for obesity found in many Mexican young adults

As many as 35 percent of Mexican young adults may have a genetic predisposition for obesity, said a University of Illinois scientist who conducted a study at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosί.

Overweight and Obesity created May 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mouse research links adolescent stress and severe adult mental illness

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence—a critical time for brain development—and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause ...

Neuroscience created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Epilepsy sends differentiated neurons on the run

(Medical Xpress)—The smooth operation of the brain requires a certain robustness to fluctuations in its home within the body. At the same time, its extraordinary power derives from an activity structure ...

Neuroscience created Mar 29, 2013 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Largest-ever genome-wide study identifies genes for common childhood obesity

Genetics researchers have identified at least two new gene variants that increase the risk of common childhood obesity.

Genetics created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Treatment for painful curved penis shows promise

(HealthDay)—Some diseases are especially tough to discuss. When Tony Lee realized that his penis was curving whenever he had an erection—making it painful and difficult for him to have sex—he had no ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 08, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Major international study finds no link between viral infection and rapidly developing Type 1 diabetes in young children

Some of the earliest results from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in The Young (TEDDY) study - a major Europe-USA consortium exploring the causes of type 1 diabetes in children – has found no evidence for viral ...

Diabetes created May 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds gender, employment status and social conditions key factors in development of mental disorders

Being a woman, unemployed and living in a situation of social adversity are the three strongest trigger influences in subjects with a genetic predisposition to mental disorder. Moreover, in Andalusia, over 20% of the population ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New genetic clues to breast and ovarian cancer

(Medical Xpress)—A major international study involving a Simon Fraser University scientist has found that sequence differences in a gene crucial to the maintenance of our chromosomes' integrity predispose us to certain ...

Genetics created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team discovers new strategy to effectively treat, prevent osteoarthritis

Think new discoveries are the bee's knees? This one is even better—this research out of Rhode Island Hospital is the mice's knees. Researchers have found that adding lubricin, a protein that our bodies naturally produce, ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The Lancet Series on bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder – where patients experience recurrent episodes of mood disturbance, ranging from extreme elation (mania) to severe depression – is thought to affect roughly 2% of the world's population in its most pronounced ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetics may explain severe flu in Chinese people

A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new light shed on genetic regulation's role in the predisposition to common diseases

An international team of researchers from King's College, Oxford University, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Faculty of Medicine of University of Geneva, has discovered several thousands new genetic variants impacting ...

Genetics created Sep 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Regular consumption of sugary beverages linked to increased genetic risk of obesity

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked with a greater genetic susceptibility to high body mass index (BMI) and ...

Overweight and Obesity created Sep 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Inflammatory mediator promotes colorectal cancer by stifling protective genes

Chronic inflammation combines with DNA methylation, a process that shuts down cancer-fighting genes, to promote development of colorectal cancer, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report today ...

Inflammatory disorders created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of insulin switches in pancreas could lead to new diabetes drugs

Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin.

Medical research created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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