Category: Genetic Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Racial discrimination is connected to problematic alcohol use in Black American youth. A new study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence has shown that this connection differs based on personality traits.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hackensack University Medical Center  launched an innovative surveillance program that screens individuals who are at high-risk for developing familial or hereditary pancreatic cancer.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Irvine, Calif., — In a paper published today in Sciences Advances, researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine revealed new details about a key enzyme….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new risk score can identify men and women under age 50 most likely to develop a cancer of the colon or rectum, an international study shows.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A group of genes that play an essential role in building components of our cells can also impact human lifespan, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 3, 2021 – Researchers discovered a new gene variant associated with lower levels of heart-damaging LDL cholesterol and a blood clotting protein called fibrinogen that appears to significantly lower a person’s risk of heart disease.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Kansas City, MO – Among their many extraordinary feats, some planarian flatworms reproduce by tearing off pieces of themselves to regenerate new worms.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA – Two genetic risk variants that are carried by nearly 40 percent of Black individuals may exacerbate the severity of both sepsis and COVID-19

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer are just some of the disorders associated with specific genes not “turning on” and “turning off” as they should.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 25, 2021 – Hispanic people with a high percentage of American Indigenous ancestry are at increased risk of a nutritional deficiency that could affect their heart health….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA – Despite impacting an estimated 850 million people and being responsible for 1 in 60 deaths worldwide, few treatments are available for chronic kidney disease.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, July 13, 2021 — Sharing the results of genetic testing for cardiomyopathy in adolescents ages 13-18 does not appear to cause emotional harm to families or adversely impact family function or dynamics….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A state-of-the-art genetic biobank could hold the key to preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), potentially saving the lives of hundreds of babies who die from the devastating condition each year.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A gene variant that lowers white blood cell levels and is common in individuals with African ancestry contributes to unnecessary bone marrow biopsies, according to a study published June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

(HeathNewsDigest.com) – A 9-year-old patient of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is the first in the world to receive an investigational gene editing therapy for Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA), a rare genetic disorder diagnosed at birth.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — A new Mayo Clinic study bolsters evidence that colorectal cancer is often imprinted in family genes and passed on from one generation to the next.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – High cholesterol is the most commonly understood cause of atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries that raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — Low representation of minority groups in public genomic databases may affect therapy selection for Black patients with cancer, according to new Mayo Clinic research published in npj Precision Oncology.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In the largest genome-wide association study of glaucoma comparing the genes of 34,179 people with the disease to 349,321 control subjects, an international consortium of researchers identified 44 new gene loci….