Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome ...
Sep 25, 2011
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Researchers in Finland said Thursday they had confirmed a link between the swine flu vaccine and the onset of the sleep disorder narcolepsy in children.
Sep 1, 2011
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Mums who are overweight or obese when they become pregnant may be programming their children to have asthma-like respiratory symptoms during adolescence, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and ...
Aug 16, 2011
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People are significantly more likely to inherit a predisposition to heart attack than to stroke, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, an American Heart Association journal.
Jul 26, 2011
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Mutations in three genes have been identified that are more prevalent in patients with esophageal cancer and Barrett esophagus, a premalignant metaplasia (change in cells or tissue) caused by chronic gastroesophageal reflux ...
Jul 26, 2011
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A human genetic variant associated with an almost 30 percent reduced risk of developing severe malaria has been identified. Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, and Kumasi ...
May 19, 2011
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Two new gene-editing treatments that target dangerously high levels of cholesterol in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition were found safe and effective in new, groundbreaking research.
Nov 18, 2023
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In oncogenetics, some patients could be considered as "extreme phenotypes," such as those with very early onset presentation or multiple primary malignancies, unusually high numbers of cancers of the same spectrum or rare ...
Feb 22, 2023
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You might not think about your cholesterol very often, if ever, but it's important to know your numbers.
Feb 6, 2023
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Diminishing eyesight is a common issue that occurs with age. While often unavoidable, routine eye checks are crucial.
Nov 3, 2022
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