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PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GENE DISCOVERED

...y for understanding the fundamental nature of both familial and sporadic PPH. PPH is a rare lung disorder which is usually fatal. It affects primarily women of child bearing age, although it is known to also affect men and people of all ages, including young children. Because its incidence is low, learnin...

Cancer Inheritance

... and testicular cancers, are even more likey to be familial than breast and lung cancer.// The model assumed that cancers were the result of either only one gene, or of several relatively rare genes. The new model led him to a very different conclusions; cancers are genetically influenced; rare cancers ar...

Genetics and cholesterol levels

...vels. But there is also a genetic condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) which leads to high cholesterol.// People with FH cannot usually get their cholesterol down by diet alone - they usually need medication too. Left untreated, FH often leads to early development of heart disease. But there...

Left handed have better episodic memory

...thors say that memory studies should factor in the familial and probably personal handedness of participants (having a weak versus strong hand preference may also matter). Further research may help explain why episodic memory benefits from the two halves working together, whereas factual/implicit memory is be...

Predictable genes

...nd type of genes that account for the remainder of familial breast cancer is not clear. "It is, however, plausible, that at least some of this genetic predisposition is attributable to the effects of multiple, common, but individually weak genes." Every woman, he said, might be able to have her own "genetic p...

Baby with white blood!

...wn that the reason was more likely to be that of a familial deficiency syndrome. Doctors concluded that the baby was under observation and that the confirmatory tests could be carried out only at specialised labs at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. br>...

Urinary Incontinence May Be Hereditary

...x may further increase the risk among women with a familial predisposition ....

Tobacco Found To Trigger Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...rate. Only a small percentage of patients have the familial form. Researchers studied 826 patients with pancreatic cancer. Thirty of these patients had familial pancreatic cancer, in which case the patient had a first-degree relative with the disease. Research...

Early rising from sleep can run in families

...thus may run in families. The behavior is called familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) and involves...ls. Reference: Journal Nature, issue March 2005, familial advanced sleep phase syndrome, FASPS, mendelian circadian rhythm, circadian clock, CKI -T44A, gene P...

Patients Suffering From Severe Mental Diseases Are At Risk Of Being Crime Victims

...ity unless adequately supported by the medical and familial help....

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

...// Genetic mechanisms have been examined in the familial inheritance of breast cancer among women and the mutation in the BRCA2 gene is associated with increased risk in women who have a family history of breast and ovarian cancer. What makes the news all the more interesting is that now this mutation h...

Intake Of Processed Meat And Fat Associated With Pancreatic Cancer

..., smoking status, history of diabetes mellitus and familial pancreatic cancer, ethnicity, and energy intake. The strongest association was found with processed meat; those with the highest intake of processed meats were at a 68 % increased risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those with ate the...

Kidney failure shows a tendency to run in families

... The following study represents the high rates of familial clustering of kidney disease. It also underlines the need for the parallel evaluation of close family members by screening for the presence of kidney disorders that would minimize the physical, financial and emotional trauma with respect to the famil...

Risk of heart disease is genetically transferred

...Researchers feel that middle aged adults who had a familial risk of developing heart diseases should monitor regularly their blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar level and avoid fatty food, cigarette smoking and alcohol to avoid triggering of the genes involved in heart diseases....

Three dimensional structure of apolipoprotein revealed

... to be responsible for cardiovascular diseases and familial alzheimer’s disease. Researchers feel that understanding the three dimensional configuration would help in designing a drug which specifically fits on the configuration of the protein, these findings would bring new insights in to treatment of cardio...

Do Women Die In Childbirth Because It Is More Preferable?

...iate investment in the interest of the girl child, familial neglect are other less severe forms of prejudice a...or, use of alcohol and other drugs, lack of proper familial support, inadequate motivational levels, and sexual abuse/ assault are other predisposing factors. T...

Immune Response To Flu Shots Influenced By Bereavement And Marital Status

...e in the past one to 12 months centered on health, familial and marital relationships, housing, financial situation, and deaths of a spouse, close family members or friends. “Participants’ overall stressful life events exposure was not significantly associated with the antibody response to influenza vaccinati...

Molecular Basis Of ALS Found

...regates. This mutated protein is associated with a familial form of ALS. The findings, which have implicatio...in the SOD1 gene are responsible for 20 percent of familial (inherited) ALS cases. Siddique and his colleagues also made the first ALS transgenic mouse models. ...

Risk of Heart Disease Greater from Mom than Dad

... Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, patients at higher familial risk, need more aggressive treatment of any other disease factors that they have. ‘They are at considerably greater risk from things such as high blood pressure or elevated lipids than someone who doesn't have a mother or both parents with heart-dise...

Gene Mutation May Influence Age at Onset of Parkinson's Disease

... mutations are not rare in this selected subset of familial Parkinson's disease samples (12.6 percent)," the authors write. "Single parkin mutations may increase susceptibility to the disease and decrease the onset age of Parkinson's disease (mean onset age, 49.6 years)." The fact that even heterozygotes de...

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