Sentences with phrase «scale human genetic studies»

Finally, recent large - scale human genetic studies have implicated mutations in the NMDAR itself and serine racemase, as well as many genes associated with the postsynaptic density, with increased risk for schizophrenia.

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Low levels of physical activity and inefficient sleep patterns intensify the effects of genetic risk factors for obesity, according to results of a large - scale study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

For many human diseases, large - scale genomic studies have identified common genetic variants that occur more frequently in people with cardiovascular, autoimmune, inflammatory and infectious diseases, diabetes and asthma than in those without these diseases.

This resource constitutes an important infrastructure and tool for the study of complex genetic traits, the positional cloning of disease genes, the cross-referencing of mammalian genomes, and validated human transcribed sequences for large - scale studies of gene expression.