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Genetic variations linked to COVID-19 disease severity: Study
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Boston (Massachusetts) [US], November 26 (ANI): With Coronavirus being the most experimented field from past few months', a new study led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) sheds light on the genetic risk factors that make individuals more or less susceptible to severe COVID-19.
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Early weight gain in children linked to ability to produce hormone
Updated : 2 days, 20 hours ago IST
Washington [US], November 23 (ANI): Young children of African ancestry are more at risk of developing obesity if they possess a genetic variant that reduces their ability to produce the hormone leptin.
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Maintaining healthy sleep pattern helps lower risk of heart failur
Updated : 4 days, 19 hours ago IST
Dallas [US], November 21 (ANI): While maintaining a good sleeping pattern helps in concentration in tasks, a recent study has pointed out on the additional benefit of a good sleep pattern. It suggests that the adults with the healthiest sleep patterns had a 42 per cent lower risk of heart fa
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Screening younger women for hereditary cancers may be cost effecti
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Washington [US], November 21 (ANI): According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, the population-wide screening for genetic variants linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may be cost-effective in women between the ages of 20 and 35.
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Cellular pathway of genetic heart disease similar to neurodegenera
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Washington [US], November 19 (ANI): A recent research on a genetic heart disease has uncovered a new and unexpected mechanism for heart failure.
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'It's just genes': Jason Momoa on his hunky physique
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Washington [US], November 18 (ANI): Hollywood star Jason Momoa recently revealed that the key to his hunky physique lies in the genes.
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Study suggests screening younger women for hereditary cancers may
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Washington [US], November 16 (ANI): Population-wide screening for genetic variants linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer may be cost-effective in women between the ages of 20 and 35, according to a study.
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Large study shows that a simple blood test can accurately differen
Updated : 2 weeks, 3 days ago IST
London [UK], November 9 (ANI/PRNewswire): A large, landmark study published in the American Cancer Society's prestigious journal 'Cancer Cytopathology' shows that a simple non-invasive blood test (liquid biopsy) can accurately differentiate between non-cancerous tumors versus cancerous gr
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Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious, finds study
Updated : 3 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Washington [US], October 31 (ANI): A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.
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Genomic study reveals role for hypothalamus in inflammatory bowel
Updated : 3 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): Using sophisticated 3D genomic mapping and integrating with public data resulting from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), researchers have found significant genetic correlations between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and stress and depression.
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Science behind Happiness and the evolution of brain size
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Washington [US], October 23 (ANI): In search of the causes underlying neocortex expansion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, together with colleagues at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, previously identified a number
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No genetic evidence that hearing loss causes Alzheimer's disease
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Washington [US], October 14 (ANI): New QIMR Berghofer and QUT research has found there is no strong genetic evidence that hearing loss causes Alzheimer's disease, despite both conditions sharing a significant number of genetic variants.
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