Inherited in Medical News

'Personalized' genome sequencing reveals coding error in gene for inherited pancreatic cancer

Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used "personalized genome" sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene called PALB2 that is responsible for initiating the disea...

Gene Mutation Linked to Inherited ALS

Discovery might one day lead to additional treatments, experts say THURSDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new gene has been identified as playing a role in the inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, say researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School a...

Gene Mutation Tied to Inherited Fatal Lung Disease

Those with variant had cancer as well as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, study finds TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation in a gene previously found to help protect the lungs against toxins may also be linked to lung cancer and some inherited cases of a lethal lung disease a...

Turning back the Clock in Inherited Anemias

Reawakening a dormant gene could ease sickle-cell disease and thalassemia (Vocus) December 4, 2008 -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston ( www.childrenshospital.org ) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a way to get red blood cells to produce a form ...

New findings may improve treatment of inherited breast cancer

Scientists have identified some of the elusive downstream molecules that play a critical role in the development and progression of familial breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the October 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, also identifies a compound found in grapes an...

Gene Mutation Tied to Inherited Atrial Fibrillation

Defective hormone may point to new targets for treatment, study says WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- A gene mutation linked to one family's hereditary form of atrial fibrillation may help researchers find better ways to predict, prevent and treat the heart rhythm problem, accordi...

Different mutations in single gene suggest Parkinson's is primarily an inherited genetic disorder

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Two new international studies by researchers at the Mayo Clinic site in Florida are rounding out the notion that Parkinsons disease is largely caused by inherited genetic mutations that pass through scores of related generations over hundreds, if not thousands of years. These g...

Gene newly linked to inherited ALS may also play role in common dementia

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a mutation in a gene known as TDP-43 to an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the neurodegenerative condition often called Lou Gehrig's disease. Researchers found the connection intriguing becaus...

Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can. In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience Feb. 18, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show ...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

"The beast" has felled her mother, her older sister, five of her aunts, one great, great aunt and six of her cousins . Another cousin in the United States has just found out that "the beast" has attacked her too. "I feel like I'm standing in the middle of the M25 waiting for a lorry to hit ...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified proteins in the rod and cones of the eye that could lead to the discovery of the genetic causes of a host of inherited eye diseases. The investigators hope to gain a clearer understanding of what goes wrong at the mos...

Understanding Inherited Cancer Genes

The presence of a certain gene in women could be a foreboding of ill health. The gene in question, known to cause a condition called// Saethre-Chotzen syndrome is now associated with the risk of breast cancer. Scientists said that incidence of the gene enhances the risk of breast cancer by 20 times...

Stroke Due to Inherited Reasons Strikes Women More

Women are more likely to inherit the risk to develop stroke than men, discovered a British study 806 men and women who suffered strokes// due to inadequate supply of blood to the brain or due to tiny blockages in the artery were studied by researchers. Studies revealed that the women who suffered...

Fight Back Against Inherited Sudden-Death Heart Condition

Both sides of Catherine Gray’s family tree hang heavy with heart problems, going back at least two generations. So when her heart started acting up soon after she hit age 50,// Catherine got nervous. A careful heart exam showed the root of her problems – and perhaps those of others in her fam...

Uterine Cancer May be Clue to Inherited Syndrome

A new study suggests that women with endometrial cancer should be screened for inherited mutations that could lead to a high risk of several other cancers.// The study showed that 1.8 percent, or about one in 50, of newly diagnosed endometrial cancer patients have mutations for Lynch syndrome...

Uterine cancer may be associated with inherited mutations and a risk of many cancers

A new study has indicated that women with endometrial cancer should be examined for inherited mutations that could mean a risk factor of many other cancers//. The findings of the study show that 1.8 percent, or about one in 50, recently diagnosed endometrial cancer patients experience mutations for...

Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

According to the researchers at the University of Florida, Gainesville, mice based experiments were found to be successful in delivering genes to treat hereditary diseases of the heart.// This new technique was found to be successful in mice affected with muscular dystrophy that damages the he...

Pre Implantation Genetic Haplotyping to Identify 6,000 Inherited Diseases

A new technique was developed to test for inherited disease which would in the near future offer better and healthier babies //. The British fertility clinic says that this new procedure would offer hundreds of couples hope and can test for nearly 6,000 diseases. Even testing for diseases which doe...

Twins Taste Trend Inherited – Research Say

Cancer researchers in UK exclaimed children now become fond of tasting vegetables or desserts items rather than foods made of meat// and fish – after surveying about 200 pairs of same-sex twins. ‘Heritability Factor’, was found to be strong in high-protein dishes such as beef, lamb, fish, bac...

Gene mutation identified for inherited pain syndrome

Researchers have identified the single mutation of the gene involved in causing// the condition of inherited pain syndrome or primary erythromelalgia. Investigators from Yale School of Medicine have reported in their research findings that the single mutation of the gene for sodium channel Nav...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

Unexplained sudden cardiac death is termed sudden arrhythmic death syndrome or SADS. Over 1,000 individuals die suddenly each day in the United States.// Most of these sudden deaths involve middle-aged or elderly individuals with heart problems. While sudden deaths in young people are rare, expert...

Suicide might be inherited

According to a new study, children of people with mood disorders who have attempted suicide are more likely to try to take their own lives as well. The link is especially strong among those who have been exposed// to sexual abuse and women who suffer from mood disorders themselves. Research ha...

Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant mothers may be inherited

Dutch scientists have found out that the condition of preeclampsia that may cause complications in giving birth may be passed on from mothers to their daughters.// Preeclampsia is a condition that is characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine and swelling of hands and feet. Th...

Persistent Childhood Wheeze Probably Inherited

Childhood wheezing has been linked to many different causes, some of which are typical of childhood asthma and some // of which are not. Previous studies have suggested early onset wheezing is associated with high levels of allergies, impaired lung function, and bronchial hyper-responsiveness. Chil...

Humour inherited

Your sense of humour has nothing to do with your genes, and everything to do with your upbringing say UK biologists. Most personality traits such as being introverted or extroverted are believed to be at least partly genetically determined - so researchers presumed the same applied to our sense of ...

FDA Approves New 3000 IU Vial Size for Kogenate(R) FS, antihemophilic factor (recombinant)

... at www.kogenatefs.com . About Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, also known as factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is largely an inherited bleeding disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots in the body is missing or reduced. Hemophilia A, the most common type of hem...

Abnormal Brain Circuits May Prevent Movement Disorder

...ually pave the way towards new treatments for dystonia patients. There are half a million people in the United States alone. The brains of people with inherited dystonia are normal at autopsy and the exact cause of their movement abnormality is unknown. David Eidelberg, MD, the senior author of the study p...

Developing gene therapy to fight blindness

...ntal genetics unit at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia. RP is a type of hereditary retinal dystrophy, a group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of the photoreceptor rods and cones lead to progressive visual loss. Rods and cones are specialized light-sensitive n...

Grant for brain tumor and deafness research

...rvous system. Schwann cells produce the sheaths that surround and insulate neurons. Although the tumours are benign, they are frequent. They can be inherited and come in numbers. The sheer number of them can overwhelm a patient, often leading to deafness and eventually to death. Patients can suffer from 20 ...

Scientists Track Impact of DNA Damage in the Developing Brain

...d spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy (SCAN1). Both disorders are inherited and are characterized by progressive difficulty with walking and other movement. AOA1 is among the most common form of certain inherited movement disorders in Japan and Portugal. McKinnon said those reports spark...

The Gift of Life Flows Through Your Veins!

...These patients require a precisely-matched transfusion from someone who has inherited the same antigens, or markers, in their blood. Like eye color, or other inherited characteristics, this "precise match" blood is most often found in someone ...

NIH Plan Charts Course to Better Treatments and Cure for Most Common Known Genetic Cause of Autism: Fragile X

...tline key recommendations, and discuss the plan's future impact on the entire Fragile X research trajectory. FXS is the most common cause of inherited mental impairment, ranging from learning disabilities to more severe cognitive or intellectual disabilities, and is the most common known, single gene...

Earlier Testing Needed for Fragile X Syndrome

...rning could improve if pediatricians diagnosed the syndrome earlier, researchers say. The disorder, known as fragile X syndrome, is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability and is not apparent at birth. It affects roughly one in 2,000 males and one in 4,000 females. Symptoms range from mild...

Gene Mutation Is Linked to Heart Muscle Disease

...rector of cardiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said in a hospital news release. "This clarifies the mechanisms by which these inherited mutations cause disease in a subset of dilated cardiomyopathy patients." He said the finding "provides us with a better understanding of the causes...

Bayer HealthCare Announces Recipients of 2009 International Hemophilia Nursing Fellowship

...formation visit: www.wfh.org . About Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, also known as factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is largely an inherited bleeding disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots in the body is missing or reduced. Hemophilia A is the most common type of h...

U of M researchers find childhood cancer risk rises with mother's age

...related changes in hormonal levels during pregnancy and alterations in DNA markings in eggs that can be transmitted to the offspring. "A mechanism of inherited mutation is consistent with our finding that the maternal age effect was strongest among children diagnosed with cancer at the earliest age," Spector ...

Bayer HealthCare Awards $2.5 Million to Advance Hemophilia Research and Improve Patient Care

...t bayer-hemophilia-awards.com . About Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, also known as factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is largely an inherited bleeding disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots in the body is missing or reduced. Hemophilia A is the most common type of h...

Analysis of Four Large Post-Marketing Surveillance Studies Describe Clinical Effects of Sucrose-Formulated Recombinant Factor VIII

...ment related by the investigators. About Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, also known as factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is largely an inherited bleeding disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots in the body is missing or reduced. Hemophilia A is the most common type of h...

Fitness Management Group, Inc. Approves Sale of the Company

...losing the majority of our underperforming facilities in the Raleigh, NC market," said Jeffrey R. Stec, CEO of Fitness Management Group. "Liabilities inherited from previous management and the current severe economic downturn, have had an adverse impact on our financial performance. Restructuring with Fuzion...

Bayer HealthCare Launches Hemophilia Self-Infusion Training Program

...tion at www.kogenatefs.com . About Hemophilia A Hemophilia A, also known as factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is largely an inherited bleeding disorder in which one of the proteins needed to form blood clots in the body is missing or reduced. Hemophilia A, the most common type of hem...