Sentences with phrase «risk allele by»

These dogs are very likely to develop PRA associated with the IG - PRA1 risk allele by the time they reach 5 - 7 years of age.

Not exact matches

The research by scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Columbia University shows a link between a particular allele for serotonin found at a higher frequency in those at risk of depression because of family history, and those who go on to develop major depressive disorder.

Having this allele reduces the risk of severe malaria by about 40 % in Kenyan children, with a slightly smaller effect across all the other populations studied.

Genome - wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated a significant polygenic contribution to bipolar disorder (BD) where disease risk is determined by the summation of many alleles of small

Furthermore, sex - specific differences in gene polymorphism are suggested by one study showing that diabetic women carrying ACE D allele have a higher risk for development of diabetic nephropathy, which was not seen in diabetic men (Table 2)(331).

Common risk alleles are often detected by genome - wide association studies (GWAS) 1,2.

However, in subgroup analyses stratified by age, we found that the deletion allele was associated with increased risk for lung cancer among individuals < 50 years of age (OR 2.17, CI 1.19 - 3.97), and that the association was gradually reduced with increasing age (p = 0.01).

11 ApoE4 heterozygotes (people with one allele) have a five-fold increased risk of developing AD, and homozygotes (two alleles) are estimated to have a staggering lifetime risk between 50 - 90 percent.12 Despite this seemingly damning genetic heritage, the ApoE4 allele is neither required nor sufficient for development of AD, as 50 percent of people with AD are not carriers, and some E4 homozygotes never develop the disease.13 On the other hand, the other known risk factor — hyperinsulinism — elevates risk by 43 percent independently of ApoE status.

When participants were stratified by CYP1A2 genotype, the increased risk of MI associated with coffee intake was observed only among carriers of the slow * 1F allele (P =.04 for gene × coffee interaction).

It has been suggested that the positive associations reported in case - control studies may have resulted from recall bias or confounding by factors such as smoking.19, 34 However, because we observed an association between coffee and risk of MI among carriers of the * 1F allele, and not among those homozygous for the * 1A allele, the associations between coffee and MI are unlikely due to recall bias or residual confounding.

One approach, developed largely in collaboration with Dr. Elaine Ostrander at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Kerstin Lindblad - Toh at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, seeks to map risk alleles in Portuguese Water Dogs, Golden Retrievers, and German Shepherds using resources made available by the recent completion of the Canine Genome Project.

This tells us that heritability contributes to risk, and so it may be possible to reduce the incidence by eliminating the highest risk alleles from the population.

Moreover, overrepresentation of a popular sire's genome risks the widespread dissemination of monogenetic inherited disorders by inflating the allele frequency of recessive deleterious variants carried by the sire and increasing the probability of identity by descent of undesirable alleles in his descendants [18,20,21].

The study also demonstrates that risk for depression associated with the s allele and stressful life events is further moderated by social support quality and availability.

By extension, S allele carriers may be more likely to demonstrate negative cognitive biases, such as engage in narrow thinking and cognitive focus, which facilitate maintenance to collectivistic cultural norms of social conformity and interdependence, whereas L allele carriers may exhibit positive cognitive biases, such as open, creative thinking and greater willingness to take risks, which promote individualistic cultural norms of self - expression and autonomy (Isen et al. 1987; Fredrickson 2001).