The course and severity of COVID-19 in individual patients is largely influenced by the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the human immune system. Normally, the antiviral immune response of natural killer ...
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One day, physicians may be able to look at an African American's skin color, and with the help of other determinants, know if prescribing vitamin D supplements would lower that person's risk of getting cancers of the prostate, ...
Feb 18, 2021
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People with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) share about the 80% of genetic variants associated with aggressive and antisocial behaviors.
Feb 17, 2021
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A technology that is widely used by commercial genetic testing companies is "extremely unreliable" in detecting very rare variants, meaning results suggesting individuals carry rare disease-causing genetic variants are usually ...
Feb 15, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and their colleagues published a new analysis today in the journal Nature from genetic sequencing data of more than 53,000 individuals, primarily from minority ...
Feb 11, 2021
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When her gynecologist recommended genetic testing, Mai Tran was reluctant.
Feb 11, 2021
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For all their importance as a breakthrough treatment, the cancer immunotherapies known as checkpoint inhibitors still only benefit a small minority of patients, perhaps 15 percent across different types of cancer. Moreover, ...
Feb 10, 2021
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The first evidence from genetic data that high blood pressure is causally associated with the most common heart rhythm disorder is published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European ...
Feb 9, 2021
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A new method for studying gene function shows how high blood sugar and bone density are connected in diabetes patients.
Feb 4, 2021
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In a new perspective piece published in the Feb. 5 issue of Science, pharmacologist Namandje Bumpus, Ph.D.—who recently became the first African American woman to head a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine department, ...
Feb 4, 2021
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