An international group of scientists has identified three genetic regions that predispose Asian women who have never smoked to lung cancer. The finding provides further evidence that risk of lung cancer among never-smokers, ...
Nov 11, 2012
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Human geneticists have long debated whether the genetic risk of the most common medical conditions derive from many rare mutations, each conferring a high degree of risk in different people, or common differences throughout ...
Mar 25, 2012
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Scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and their colleagues have found a genetic marker that predicts which aggressive "triple negative" breast cancers and certain ovarian cancers will ...
Mar 22, 2012
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Current diagnostic methods do not always reliably distinguish between chronic inflammation of the pancreas and pancreatic cancer. About one third of all diagnoses are inconclusive. Scientists from the German Cancer Research ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Researchers investigated the relationship between historical traumatic events experienced by Alaska Native communities and epigenetic markers on genes that previous studies have linked to trauma. The new study found a similar ...
Sep 7, 2023
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Gestational diabetes and preeclampsia may be linked to slower biological development in infants, according to a new study led by USC.
Feb 24, 2023
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In a world first international study led by Monash University researchers in Australia, the genetic markers for people with diabetes at risk of developing kidney disease have been identified.
Jan 18, 2023
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Epigenetic biomarkers may reflect past cardiovascular health exposures and predict cardiovascular disease in the future, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the journal Circulation.
Jun 29, 2022
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When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes.
Jun 23, 2022
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A new study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden supports the notion that patients with type 2 diabetes should be divided into subgroups and given individualized treatment. The study demonstrates that there are distinct ...
May 25, 2022
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