A genetic variant found almost exclusively in individuals of Asian descent increases the risk of elevated triglycerides ... 13.7% and 5.4%. When calculated, the 553T variant corresponds to a 4.4 and 2.5 ...
... infection by the Norwalk virus and ulcer-causing H. pylori bacterium.
In the study, the FUT2 genetic variant accounted for about three percent of the variation in B12 plasma levels, Hazra said. The ...
... a bona fide binding site for the AP2 transcription factor, and that this binding site was disrupted by the genetic variant," said Domann, University of Iowa professor of radiation oncology. "This was ...
... control experienced a two-fold increase in mortality as compared to other subjects with diabetes.
"One or more genetic variants located on chromosome 9p21 are major risk factors for coronary artery ...
... Karsten Suhre, has conducted a genome-wide association study with metabolomics, identifying genetic variants in genes involved in the breakdown of fats. The resulting differences in metabolic capacity ...
A large-scale effort to identify genetic markers of breast cancer has uncovered two common genetic variants that increase risk of the disease in women of European ancestry. read more
... stroke," noted Walter Koroshetz, M.D., deputy director of NINDS.
The association of one of the genetic variants was replicated in two independent samples: North American black persons and Dutch ...
... areas of the brain interoperate".
Result: persons suffering from this high-risk genetic variant exhibited a change in the communication between their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and ...
... be due to inheritable genetic factors. However, until now, GWAS had not been used to study the effect of genetic variants on age at menopause.
The scientists intend to follow up their work with an ...
... scanned DNA from 980 West Africans with and without hypertension. The work confirmed that some of the genetic variants detected in African-Americans were also associated with blood pressure in West ...
... 77,000 adults and found that two copies of genetic variants resulted in an average increase in weight ... active MC4R protein.
By contrast, the new variants lie some distance from the MC4R gene. The team ...
... could in turn be involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Much more study and identification of other genetic variants must be done to further illuminate the disease’s genetic underpinnings, ...
... clinically assessed a large sample of autistic children and their families. They specifically examined the genetic variants in six genes known to be involved in maternal and affiliative behaviors. ...
... , University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Their study, entitled Genetic Variant in the Glucose Transporter Type 2 (GLUT 2) is Associated with Higher Intakes of Sugars in Two ...
... aptitude is likely to be regulated by several predisposing genes/variants.
“The identification of genes/genetic variants involved in mediating music perception and performance would offer new tools ...
