Sentences with phrase «carriers of diseases including»

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The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

Researchers also included a human genetics study of approximately 188,000 people, which found that carriers of mutations that disable ANGPTL3 had nearly 40 percent fewer incidents of coronary artery disease as compared to those with fully functioning ANGPTL3.

The population study findings, including those from the JACC study, suggest that even the partial inactivation of ANGPTL3 — carriers typically have one mutant copy of the gene and one working copy — may be powerfully protective against coronary artery disease, which has long been one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

Kuiken worries that this could sow suspicions about gene drives in parts of the world that view the US military in a less - than - favourable light, including countries that stand to benefit from the elimination of disease carriers such as mosquitoes.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

It also began offering information to customers about their «carrier status» — the ability to pass conditions on to children — of 36 diseases and medical conditions, including sickle - cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.

Presentations included: Genetics Primer & Clinical Updates by Angelika Erwin, MD, PhD, Expanded Carrier Screening — What you Need to Know by Amy Shealy, MS, LGC, Recent Advances in the Treatment and Management of Cystic Fibrosis by Silvia Cardenas, MD, Advances in the Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Neil Freidman, MBChB, Autism Genetics — PTEN and beyond by Thomas W. Frazier, PhD, Thoracic Aorta Aneurysm and Dissection by Apostolos «Paul» Psychogios, MD, FACMG, Update on Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics by Holly Pederson, MD, Colon Cancer by Brandie Leach, MS, LGC and The Role of Biomarkers in Current Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease by Jagan Pillai, MD, PhD.

Carrier testing can be ordered in various ways, including targeted single gene disease testing, panel testing of multiple genetic diseases, or less commonly through a broad genomic test looking for genetic variants throughout the genome or exome.

However, in a general sense, the decision to test or not should include considerations such as: the seriousness of the disease, the reliability of the test, the prevalence of the disease in the breed, and the presence of affected or carrier dogs in the vertical pedigree.

K9 Advantix II repels and kills ticks including deer ticks (the major carrier of Lyme disease), American dog ticks, Brown dog ticks and lone star ticks.

It kills fleas and ticks in cats and kittens, including deer ticks, the major carrier of Lyme disease.

The newest generation of vaccines includes recombinant vaccines that use only small fragments of the disease agent, which are inserted into a harmless carrier virus.

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Other effects include an altered burden of water - borne diseases; an increased frequency of cardio - respiratory illness due to higher concentrations of ground level ozone, and the movement of some infectious disease carriers into new regions.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

The pertinent facts include (a) the nature of the risk (how the disease will be transmitted), (b) the duration of the risk (how long is the carrier infectious), (c) the severity of the risk (what is the potential harm to third parties), and the probabilities the disease will be transmitted and will cause varying degrees of harm.