Sentences with phrase «blood cell traits»

309/5: 00 Meta - analysis of rare and common exome chip variants identifies and replicates S1PR4 and other novel genes influencing blood cell traits.

We are part on the newly launched NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, where we coordinate theme 1 - Determinants of donation - related biomarkers.This theme will address the NIHR BTRU mandate to identify and characterise «genetic, biochemical, lifestyle and other determinants of relevant blood cell traits... and measures of iron homeostasis, including determinants of the trajectories of these factors over time among donors».

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The blood test will also determine whether your child is a carrier of the sickle cell trait.

The study team wanted to understand the particular traits of the tumor cells circulating in the blood and in the sites where the cancer has spread.

With a miniscule blood sample, the HemeChip, a micro-electrophoretic device, examines and identifies hemoglobins, including hemoglobinopathies sickle cell anemia (HbSS), sickle trait (HbAS) and SC disease (HbSC).

Although we did observe positive effects on some aging traits, such as memory impairments and reduced red blood cell counts, our studies showed that similar drug effects are also seen in young mice, indicating that rapamycin did not influence these measures by slowing aging, but rather via other, aging - independent, mechanisms.»

But the blood test that was used, the Sickledex test, could not tell people with the sickle - cell trait, called genetic heterozygotes, apart from those with sickle - cell disease, the homozygotes.

They swapped in 14 genes governing mammoth traits for long hair, extra fat, and special cold - adapted blood cells.

«We found that HbA1c was systematically lower in African - Americans with sickle cell trait than those without sickle cell trait despite similar blood sugar measurements using other tests,» says lead author Mary Lacy, a doctoral candidate at the Brown School of Public Health.

A new study in finds that HbA1c tests underreport a key blood sugar measure in African - Americans with sickle cell trait.

Two such conditions are sickle cell trait (a blood disorder), and glycogen storage disease, in which a missing enzyme renders your body unable to efficiently store and release glucose for energy.

That's a great trait to have, because it means it can move into and out of cells and get from your blood into your brain easily.

And dare I forget to mention I have a very rare 1 and 100 million blood disorder, hemoglobin CC (sickle cell trait).