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Genes that influence dyslexia

A large-scale gene study identifies series of DNA variants linked to dyslexia

31-Oct-2022 - An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands), has for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia. Around a third of the 42 ...

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A building block for liver fitness in old age

Researchers discover cellular protection against epigenetic changes

14-Sep-2022 - The liver can regenerate even in old age and remains surprisingly fit, even though the chromatin in its cells undergoes major remodeling due to epigenetic changes, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne have now discovered. One possible reason why the ...

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Genetic Testing Before Pregnancy Detects up to Half of the Risk

Are would-be parents carrying a genetic risk of serious illnesses that they could potentially pass on to their children?

01-Sep-2022 - In the USA, doctors recommend that couples have genetic screening before trying to conceive. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown that a maximal variant of this test detects the risk in 44 percent of couples who are related by blood, and in just 5 percent of other couples. ...

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COVID-19: Gene variant reduces mortality risk by one third

Those who carry a particular gene variant have about a 35% lower risk of dying from a severe course of COVID-19

05-Aug-2022 - Research teams from the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) followed the disease progression of a total of 1570 SARS-CoV-2-positive patients from March 11, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The study team, led by Dr. Birte Möhlendick of the Institute of Pharmacogenetics at the ...

Covid-19 gene variants pharmacogenetics
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Researchers identify key epigenetic markers in vulnerability to developing food addiction

Epigenetic markers affected in the mouse brain were also altered in people’s plasma

10-May-2022 - Ateam of researchers has identified in rodents and humans common epigenetic mechanisms related to food addiction. The article, published inJournal of Clinical Investigation, was led byRafael MaldonadoandElena Martín, from the Neuropharmacology-Neurophar research group at Pompeu Fabra ...

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Stem cell secrets allow researchers to revamp reprogramming

Researchers have identified factors required to generate naïve stem cells by reprogramming

30-Mar-2022 - Researchers from the Babraham Institute’s Epigenetics research programme have been able to learn more about naïve stem cell reprogramming following a genome wide functional screen. Their research, published in Science Advances, describes the critical regulators of reprogramming and offers ...

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Unmuting the genome

Epigenetic mechanisms for parent-specific genetic activation decoded

13-Jan-2022 - Hereditary diseases as well as cancers and cardiovascular diseases may be associated with a phenomenon known as genomic imprinting, in which only the maternally or paternally inherited gene is active. An international research team involving scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), ...

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Prestigious award for the pioneers of optogenetics

Dieter Oesterhelt, Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, is being honoured with the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 2021 together with Peter Hegemann and Karl Deisseroth

27-Sep-2021 - Dieter Oesterhelt from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University and the U.S. American Karl Deisseroth from Stanford University will receive the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 2021 for the discovery of light-sensitive proteins in the membrane of ...

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Genetic enigma solved

Inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs

16-Aug-2021 - An international team of researchers including scientists from the Institute of Genetics of the University of Bern has unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs. The researchers discovered that a genetic variant responsible for a very light coat in dogs and wolves ...

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Rare inherited variants in previously unsuspected genes may confer significant risk for autism

New Study in Nature Genetics uses SPARK database to investigate variants that are less damaging than de novo mutations, but contribute almost as much risk

29-Jul-2021 - Researchers have identified a rare class of genetic differences transmitted from parents without autism to their affected children with autism and determined that they are most prominent in "multiplex" families with more than one family member on the spectrum. These findings are reported in ...

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