Science news articles about 'gene link'

People with a variant of the first common gene linked to obesity on average eat more, according to new research.

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory found that a previously unsuspected set of genes links nature and nurture during a crucial period of brain development. The results ...

Neuroscientists have found that a previously unsuspected set of genes links nature and nurture during a crucial period of brain development. The findings could lead to treatments for autism and other ...

... marks the first time scientists have found a cancer gene linked to a pigment pattern that functions to increase ... offspring inheriting the gene and dying off. Swordtail fish usually live for 1.5 to ...

Scientists have identified genes linked to blindness produced by corneal oedema. The findings, published in the journal ‘Experimental Eye Research’ related to blindness caused by corneal oedema ...

... UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a gene linked to the autoimmune disease lupus, and its location ... adult-onset lupus. To further test the link, the researchers then took mice of a strain ...

Two potentially key genes linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease have been uncovered by UK researchers.

... . "I felt very urgent to find the genes for ALS," he says. "This is very nice work," said ... , Zhang, Sha and their colleagues have also identified 11 genes linked to type 2 diabetes, which has reached ...

... processes called axons. Girdin was previously identified as a substrate for AKT, another gene linked with schizophrenia, and is thought to be required for normal cellular structure. Cells from the ...

... court reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer after forensic scientists highlighted the presence of a gene linked to violent behavior as evidence of the murderer's soundness of mind. The court, ...

... cancer risk, suggest adiponectin may be the third gene linked to breast cancer among women ... along with TGF-beta and CHEK2, genes that have already been linked to breast cancer, to create a genetic ...

... to be important in the susceptibility (or resistance) to these complications, until now the genes involved have been mostly unknown.” How did the researchers discover that this gene is involved in ...

... search for genes associated with alcohol dependence has recently been extended to the tachykinin receptor 3 gene, located within a broad region on chromosome 4q. Researchers have found that seven of ...

... to collect more samples from patients with congenital vertebral abnormalities and sequence more genes to look for causative mutations. Additionally, we will sequence MESP2 in a larger collection of ...

... human obesity," said Wickman, co-author of the article. By examining closely where this gene, termed Girk4, is expressed in the body, the researchers found particularly high levels in ...