Sentences with phrase «to contribute to disease»

Although psychiatric disorders have a genetic component, it is known that environmental factors also contribute to disease risk.

We also study how changes in the timing of gene expression contribute to diseases like cancer.

Exactly how the genetic risk factors contribute to the disease is not readily apparent in most cases, and requires cellular and molecular biology investigations that use cultured cells and mouse models.

For optimum health and longevity, we feed a natural raw diet that is free of preservatives and grain products as these can contribute to diseases such as cancer and arthritis.

They are thought to cause brain damage, birth defects, and contribute to disease of the liver and thyroid.

This gives insights how a similar gene in humans may contribute to disease when its activity is altered.

Your lack of good quality sleep can also contribute to disease states in a similar way that your diet does.

Already, the genome's tales are revealing how genetic variants contribute to disease, giving researchers insights into human evolution and even changing how scientists define a gene.

They're starting to discover what a lot of people suspected all along — inflammation contributes to disease.

Notably they have investigated how diverse cellular players and molecular pathways contribute to disease onset and progression.

Notably they investigated how diverse cellular players and molecular pathways contribute to disease onset and progression.

Such diseases are rare and can not alone explain the gender gap, but it may be that X chromosome faults contribute to disease more subtly.

Because humans with irregular sleeping patterns also tend to eat more at night, the researchers suspect that these eating habits contribute to disease specifically by disrupting the gut microbes.

A long term goal of my laboratory is to understand the ways in which our immune system contributes to diseases like heart disease and asthma.

These foods and additives contribute to disease, inflammation, obesity, and death.

And when you eat your carbs in that form, they very consistently contribute to disease.

The more acidic the water is, the more it can contribute to inflammation within your body, which then contributes to disease and illness.

Thus, a lack of adequate probiotic flora may significantly contribute to disease.

So too do environmental conditions such as amount of physical exercise, and weight gain contribute to the disease, and bring out symptoms.

From this study, it is difficult to determine if the low Vitamin C levels in dogs contribute to the disease or if the disease process caused lowered Vitamin C levels.

While organisms depend on this vital process, epigenetic changes also contribute to diseases.

A lack of calcium is also believed to contribute to diseases like hypertension, kidney disease, heart disease and — possibly — cancer of the colon.

The findings include evidence of how the protein fragments that make up the Alzheimer's plaque are deposited outside neurons and how loss of NEU1 possibly contributes to disease progression and spread.

A team of scientists led by Marshall Montrose, from the University of Cincinnati, USA, asked whether H. pylori can sense and respond to such damage and so contribute to disease development.

In recent months parents - to - be in England made news by requesting to discard embryos merely because they carried dormant genes — ones that could potentially contribute to disease in the grandchildren, but only if, as adults, those embryos eventually chose mates with the same recessive genes.

«Alzheimer's, like many human disorders, has a genetic component, yet many environmental and lifestyle factors contribute to the disease as well,» says Silverman.

Obviously there's considerable power to detect variants contributing to disease in a family with segregating alleles (rather than unrelated individuals).

While environmental factors play a role in developing T2D, it is also highly heritable — and the genetics involved are complex, with many genes contributing to disease risk.

House sparrows, about as widespread across the United States as artificial lighting itself, make a useful test species for a first - of - its - kind study of how night illumination might contribute to disease spread, said Meredith Kernbach,...

Researchers also want to explore how disordered proteins contribute to disease.

In addition, they show that there is statistical support for antibodies contributing to disease severity during secondary dengue infections.

Fourth, disease network analysis ultimately provides a mechanistic basis for defining phenotypic differences among individuals with the same disease through consideration of unique genetic and environmental factors that govern intermediate phenotypes contributing to disease expression.

In some diseases, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease), excessive junk RNA is produced, possibly contributing to the disease.

They showed evidence for host gene - microbiota interactions contributing to disease risk in a mouse model of autoantibody - induced inflammatory skin disease.

«We therefore hypothesise that the low levels of those three bacteria may have resulted in immune dysregulation and heightened levels of inflammation in individuals with PTSD, which may have contributed to their disease symptoms,» explains Malan - Muller.

My main take - home message from my AAO lecture is that we are beginning to understand important and critical biological processes that do contribute to the disease, and that some of these could be the targets of novel therapies.

Though not directly linked to cesarean delivery, unhealthy gut flora has been linked to allergies, autoimmunity, vascular disease, some cancers, depression / anxiety, neurodegenerative disorders and type 2 diabetes, so it makes sense that early unhealthy gut flora could contribute to these diseases later in life.

Warren County, which has the highest rate of cancer in the state, will be one of four regions to be studied by the state to establish trends and potential causes contributing to the disease, state officials announced.

Now Robert Belshaw at Plymouth University, UK, and Gkikas Magiorkinis at the University of Oxford, who study whether these viral DNA sequences contribute to disease, have found evidence that we do share some of these sections of DNA with our extinct cousins.

This is partly because obesity and other illnesses such as hypertension and elevated cholesterol contribute to both diseases, but there are concerns that some of the medications that help control blood sugar may also damage the heart.

Consuming highly processed vegetable oils contributes to disease by neglecting both of these important concepts.

Bacteria are likely not the whole story; irregular sleeping and eating can contribute to disease through other routes, such as excess stress hormone and insulin production.

Elspeth Bartlet, communications manager at CNAP, says this is an important aspect of the project because it means farmers in malaria - affected areas can contribute to disease control.

But Faulkner says that their effects are not necessarily harmful: «It is entirely possible that retrotransposition is generally a good thing but sometimes contributes to disease.»

«Further studies are needed to confirm if defective autophagy contributes to the disease process, but if this bears out then autophagy drugs may be beneficial for patients.»

«This tells us again that DME is a heterogeneous condition and that VEGF - independent mechanisms contribute to this disease,» Dr. Feener says.