Each gene variation has the potential to trigger specific defects. Among all genetic conditions, diseases recessive occur only when both the father and the mother are healthy carriers of the same defective gene which can ...
Mar 17, 2016
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report that humans have a surprisingly high number of genes in which one of two copies has been randomly silenced. They suggest that the phenomenon is ...
Feb 4, 2016
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Researchers have found that a genetic variant is linked with an increased risk of fatty liver disease in obese youth; however, children with the variant tend to have lower total and LDL cholesterol levels.
Nov 16, 2015
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Infertility affects roughly 15 percent of couples – with many cases resulting from faulty genetics – but the details of underlying genetic causes are largely unknown.
Aug 5, 2015
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Millions of genetic variants have been discovered over the last 25 years, but interpreting the clinical impact of the differences in a person's genome remains a major bottleneck in genomic medicine. In a paper published in ...
May 27, 2015
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A new population genetics model developed by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health could explain why the genetic composition of Finnish people is so different ...
May 11, 2015
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What if a failed leukemia drug could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease? A team at the University of Kentucky recently led an effort to investigate this hypothesis. Their results were published today in the journal, Human ...
Apr 3, 2015
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The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only part of the story, as genes can be switched on and off by ...
Feb 18, 2015
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Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have received a grant for up to $1 million from the Simons Foundation to develop a comprehensive map of human genetic variation. The Human Genome Variation Map will be a ...
Jan 13, 2015
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Thousands of never-before-seen genetic variants in the human genome have been uncovered using a new genome sequencing technology. These discoveries close many human genome mapping gaps that have long resisted sequencing.
Nov 10, 2014
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