Sentences with phrase «gene variant slowing»

Scientists are now thinking that DNA might play a role in the way the body processes caffeine, with a certain gene variant slowing the metabolism of coffee.

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People with the gene variant also had 30 per cent lower levels of insulin when fasting — a sign of slower ageing.

One study even identified two genes in which particular variants can slow the onset of AIDS, demonstrating the potential of this approach for understanding why people vary in their susceptibility to infectious diseases.

Slow - healing or non-healing bone fractures in otherwise healthy people may be caused by gene variants that are common in the population, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Linkage and candidate gene studies have been highly successful in the identification of genes that cause the monogenic variants of diabetes and, although progress in the more common forms of T2D has been slow, a number of genes have now been reproducibly associated with T2D risk in multiple studies.

New research shows that combination therapy of vitamin B3 and a fusion gene variant called the Wallerian degeneration slow allele prevented...

As I wrote in my book, The Genetics of Health people with the AA variant of the CYP1A2 gene are fast metabolizers, while those with the AC or CC subtypes of the gene are slow metabolizers.

If you have two copies of this gene variant, you metabolize caffeine much slower than «fast» caffeine metabolizers.