Sentences with phrase «several common human diseases»
Aneuploidy is known to be deleterious and underlies several common human diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders such as trisomy 21 in Down's syndrome.
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Brief exposure in infancy to several industrial chemicals that are common in the human environment, particularly bisphenol A (BPA), caused fatty liver disease in adulthood, the researchers found in rats.
«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.
In addition, recent genome - wide association studies have identified several hundred common genetic variants — inherited changes in the DNA sequence of the human genome — that play a role in an individual's susceptibility to complex human illnesses such as heart disease, mental illnesses, cancer and diabetes.
Several common human nematode parasites cause intestinal and subcutaneous disease including the ascarids, filarias, ancylostomids (hookworms), Enterobius (pinworms / threadworms) and Trichuris (whipworms).