Sentences with phrase «common diseases turn»

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But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected.

The most common cause of death in young children in developing countries is diarrhea (also a major fatal disease in New York at the turn of the century).

«It was assumed that common variants might be responsible for common diseases, but many diseases turn out to have many different rare variants at their root,» says James Lupski, a medical geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

As Finnish geneticist Leena Peltonen wrote in a recent review, «The enthusiasm regarding the use of population isolates for the identification of predisposing genes for common, polygenic diseases has turned to a silent drudgery.»

Tissue analysis has confirmed the diagnosis, but it turns out that even this second patient didn't have a typical case of the disease: Johann F. suffered from the less common «plaque only» variant.

The long and winding journey to the roots of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, has turned up three new genetic clues — the first major ones in 15 years.

Of the dozen of these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the study.

With its uniquely comprehensive population data, deCODE is turning research on the genetic causes of common diseases into a growing range of products and services — in gene discovery, pharmaceuticals, DNA - based diagnostics, pharmacogenomics, in silico discovery tools, bioinformatics and medical decision support systems.

With its uniquely comprehensive population data, deCODE is turning research on the genetic causes of common diseases into a growing pipeline of products and services — in pharmaceuticals, gene and drug discovery, DNA - based diagnostics, pharmacogenomics, bioinformatics, and clinical trials.

Wheat is a good source of tryptophan, but when the wheat is contaminated with glyphosate, your gut cells go into overdrive and begin producing too much serotonin, which in turn produces many of the common symptoms of celiac disease, such as diarrhea.

Tom O'Bryan discusses some common environmental triggers that will «pull on the chain» in great detail, and how they lead to genes being turned on and hence causing disease: food quality, wheat, dairy sugar, glyphosate, plastic and air quality.

It only takes one popular sire to turn a relatively infrequent disease like CEA in Aussies into a common one.

Because CKD is such a common disease in cats, routine screening of all mature and older cats can help early diagnosis, which in turn may prolong a good quality of life.

And not only is it common, canine dental disease can turn into serious health problems later in life.

Most of the common negligence cases that we see in dentistry are to do with periodontal disease and lack of diagnosis and lack of treatments which has in turn led to tooth loss and then the need to replace the teeth, usually with dental implants.