Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London, has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an increase in "twisting" ...
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Individuals with psoriasis have double the odds of having celiac disease (CD) versus individuals without psoriasis, according to a research letter published online Feb. 9 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Feb 28, 2023
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A team of researchers from Italy, the U.K. and the U.S. has isolated a number of immune cell-related genetic variants that may impact autoimmune conditions. In their paper published in the journal Nature Genetics, the group ...
Identifying genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease is essential if we are to improve our understanding and treatment of it. Progress in human genome analysis along with genome-wide association studies are now leading ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Children's heads expand steadily to accommodate their growing brains, and doctors routinely measure head circumference during the first years of life to assess healthy brain development. Children from around the world follow ...
Jan 21, 2019
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Broad scientists analyzed sequencing data from more than 200,000 people and found rare genetic variants associated with diseases like diabetes and heart failure.
Feb 23, 2022
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Around 260 million people, more than three percent of the global population, are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); in the long term, this often leads to complications such as liver cirrhosis and liver ...
Feb 4, 2021
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An international team of researchers has conducted the first study of its kind to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African-Americans. They discovered that approximately 1 percent of ...
Mar 13, 2017
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Epidemiological data have long linked depression with Alzheimer's disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive dementia that affects nearly 6 million Americans. Now, a new study identifies common ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia, affecting more than 5.8 million individuals in the U.S. Scientists have discovered some genetic variants that increase ...
Jun 30, 2022
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