A study conducted at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) suggests that the APOE4 allele may also increase cerebral microhaemorrhages related to COVID-19 and associate with mental fatigue ...
Dec 27, 2021
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When some people become infected with the coronavirus, they only develop mild or undetectable cases of COVID-19. Others suffer severe symptoms, fighting to breathe on a ventilator for weeks, if they survive at all.
May 5, 2020
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have characterized how and to what degree our cells utilize the gene copies inherited from our mother and father differently. At a basic level ...
Sep 28, 2016
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Thanks to advances in genetic testing, there is now a way for consumers to test for the greatest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Aug 2, 2018
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A team led by a scientist at Scripps Research has invented a new genomics technique for tracking down the causes of rare genetic diseases.
Oct 11, 2019
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A genetic phenomenon that allows for the selection of multiple genetic mutations that all lead to a similar outcome—for instance the ability to digest milk—has been characterised for the first time in humans.
Aug 29, 2013
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The SARS-CoV-2 delta variant that caused the third wave of COVID-19 in mid-2021 turned out to be more contagious than earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants. In addition, protein mutations in the delta variant were found to significantly ...
Jan 17, 2023
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A team of researchers at Stanford University has found a significant subset of allele-independent regulatory sites that have multiple causal variants in linkage disequilibrium. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
(Medical Xpress)—It's abundantly clear by now that the sequence of our genes can be important to our health.
May 19, 2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a "gay gene" created a furore in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.
Jun 2, 2014
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