Sentences with phrase «specific gene mutations»

• People with paragangliomas and those diagnosed with metastatic tumors should be tested for specific gene mutations associated with those conditions;

RESULTS: No differences in the frequency of specific gene mutations were detected when women with recurrent miscarriage were compared with control women.

«Originally, we wanted to establish a disease model for FOP that might help us understand how specific gene mutations affect bone formation,» said first author Yohei Hayashi, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar in Yamanaka's laboratory.

«Originally, we wanted to establish a disease model for FOP that might help us understand how specific gene mutations affect bone formation,» said first author Yohei Hayashi, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar with Yamanaka's laboratory.

Although specific gene mutations have been identified in humans that can cause CCMs to form, the size and number varies widely among patients with the same mutations.

New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often deadly form of brain cancer have pointed to the potential of gene therapy, but it's very difficult to effectively deliver toxic or missing genes to cancer cells in the brain.

People living in the Atacama desert of Chile evolved specific gene mutations over the past 7000 years that make them better at detoxifying the heavy metal

• A diagnostic algorithm that takes into account risk factors such as age at tumor presentation and family history should be used to establish which patients would benefit most from genetic testing and which specific gene mutations to test for;

Her OB - GYN tested her for two specific gene mutations after the plaintiff notified her physician of a family history of cancer.

The quantity of ctDNA, as well as the emergence of specific gene mutations, could be used in the future to steer therapy in a more precise manner.

Scientists have figured out the specific gene mutation responsible for red hair — and why it's more common in beards than on heads.

The newly approved drug would target about 15 to 20 percent of ovarian cancer patients who have the specific gene mutation, known as deleterious BRCA.

Their tumors also need to have a specific gene mutation that leads to the repair of cancerous cells.

A new study indicates that specific gene mutations might predispose some people to irreversible liver cirrhosis.

People with a specific gene mutation have a 50 percent lower risk of suffering a heart attack.

Our study sought to use a new way of imaging the lung to understand how well the drug is working in patients with a specific gene mutation known as G551D - CFTR.»

For patients, this means that rather than thinking about the right drug for a certain disease, doctors will think about the right drug to treat the patient's specific gene mutation.

With this approach, patients could one day receive personalized therapies for the specific gene mutation that causes their form of the disease.

Meanwhile, medical professionals and the judge presiding over the parents» appeal have noted that the therapy has never been tried on mice or any humans with Charlie's specific gene mutation, which was first recognized in 2007.

For the past several months, researchers there have been developing mice with Talia's specific gene mutation, helping scientists in other institutions develop gene therapy and a possible cure.

History of Personalized Medicine Brings Future Hope to Lung Cancer Patients The cause of Victor's lung cancer was a mystery to him — until experts from the University of Chicago Medicine traced it to a specific gene mutation.

My lab performs genetic testing when a physician needs to know whether a child carries a specific gene mutation (change in DNA) that causes disease.

The researchers hoped to create a cellular model to parse the effects of specific gene mutations, according to a press release, but in the process they discovered that skin cells from FOP patients were much more readily converted into iPSCs than cells from healthy individuals.

Our researchers have made key discoveries of the specific gene mutations and proteins involved in both syndromic and non-syndromic congenital sideroblastic anemias, and we have an open research protocol that is helping us to reach our ultimate goal of understanding the genetic basis of all types of CSAs.

National Cancer Institute and ECOG - ACRIN announce the July 2015 opening of the NCI - MATCH / EAY131 trial, a multi-arm phase II precision medicine study that seeks to determine whether targeted therapies for people whose tumors have specific gene mutations will be effective regardless of cancer type.

Women with a strong family history of ovarian or breast cancer may be candidates for genetic testing to check for a specific gene mutation that increases risk.

A woman with a strong family history of ovarian cancer who tests negative for a specific gene mutation is still at a higher risk for ovarian cancer.

In fact, there's a test available now for a specific gene mutation in Maine Coones and ragdolls.

Scientific discovery says obesity in Labrador Retrievers may be caused to a breed - specific gene mutation.