Here’s Why Your High School Best Friend’s Genes Matter
A study shows that the traits of your friends during adolescence can rub off on you, especially those written in ...
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Lyme disease: a genetic predisposition involved?
A team of researchers has highlighted the role of a specific genetic variant in the development of Lyme disease, which ...
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Depression: a predisposition linked to the immune system?
Researchers have provided new evidence for an immune predisposition in people with depression, paving the way for more effective treatments ...
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Alzheimer’s disease: Chris Hemsworth at high risk due to genetic predisposition
Actor Chris Hemsworth discovered that he was 8 to 10 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease because of a ...
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Some women have a genetic predisposition to procrastination
Procrastination, a tendency to postpone one's actions, would be associated with a genetic predisposition involving a higher level of dopamine ...
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Hemorrhoids: genetic predispositions
A hundred genes expressed in blood vessels and gastrointestinal tissues are thought to be involved in hemorrhoidal disease. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Homosexuality: not a “gay gene”, but genetic variations and environmental factors
"There is no single gay gene, but many small genetic effects distributed in the genome" and environmental factors that come ...
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Dementia: sedentary people twice as much at risk
Sedentary people are at as much risk of dementia as genetically predisposed people. In both cases, the risk is doubled.Better ...
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Schizophrenia is said to have a common gene for predisposition to smoke cannabis
Smokers cannabis have a common gene with patients with schizophrenia according to the results of a study published in the ...
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Diabetes: test your predisposition to the disease online
November 18, 2016. Monday, November 14, on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) launched an ...
Read morePredictive medicine embarrasses scientists
Advances in genetics have given a tremendous boost to predictive medicine. But what credit should be given to the reliability ...
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