by University of Exeter Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The genetic causes of very early menopause will have to be reconsidered after researchers found that nearly all women who carried variations thought to cause the condition in fact had their menopause at an older age. Until now, variants in any one of more than 100 genes were thought to...
by University of Pittsburgh Space-filling model of the Cholesterol molecule. Credit: RedAndr/Wikipedia The discovery of a genetic variant that is relatively common among people of Polynesian ancestry, but incredibly rare in most other populations, is giving clues to the genetic underpinnings of high cholesterol in all people, according to new research led by University of...
by Benoit Arsenault, Émilie Gobeil, The Conversation Studying the genetic aspects of fatty liver disease can help identify its causes and consequences and find new treatments. Credit: Shutterstock Over the past 40 years, changes in our urban environment and diet have had a major impact on our lifestyles. We are more sedentary and the quality...
Fragile X syndrome, or FXS, a leading genetic cause of autism, affects around one in 4,000 males and one in 6,000 females. Its symptoms include increased anxiety, intellectual disability, repetitive behaviors, social communication deficits, and abnormal sensory processing. People living with FXS generally lack the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene, or Fmr1, in their brain cells....
