]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/genes Blog Articles Tagged with 'genes' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/925071?rsstype=tag&tag=genes A new genetic syndrome was discovered in a group of families in Quebec with a common ancestor. The syndrome was named MEDNIK to describe the resulting phenotypes - mental retardation, enteropathy, deafness, peripheral neuropathy, ichthyosis, and kera... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/925071?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:59:52 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923662?rsstype=tag&tag=genes For all of man s scientific prowess and evolutionary advancement, we are the helpless victims of this sneaky little villain. Cold viruses have very few genes, so they have one purpose and one alone - to make our lives miserable! So we hack, snort,... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923662?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:59:53 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/922386?rsstype=tag&tag=genes A gene linked to susceptibility to autism, CNTNAP2, has also been connected to specific language impairment, the most common childhood language disorder, as reported yesterday in Reuters. The study, A Functional Genetic Link between Distinct Develop... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/922386?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:58:01 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/922233?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Early-onset type 1 diabetes may have less to do with certain genes causing inborn genetic errors, and more to do with normal genes behaving differently for those with the disease. To find out how certain twins get diabetes while the other does not, S... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/922233?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:00:35 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/921414?rsstype=tag&tag=genes An interesting article on the suicidal brain came out of Biological Psychiatry this week - A gene for neurotransmitter reception is shut down in the suicidal brain. Scientists found chemical changes relating to regulation of cell development were hap... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/921414?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:35:36 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/920423?rsstype=tag&tag=genes It s the Sunday edition of Genetics and Health so let s sum up some of the genetic research and news that came up this week. A grand rounds lecture Molecular Genetics of Colorectal Cancer by Vincent Yang presents an overview on the role of gene... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/920423?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:22:05 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/920404?rsstype=tag&tag=genes In yesterday's interview with Michael Posner, he says:- There is a growing number of studies that show the importance of interaction between our genes and each of our environments. Epigenetics is going to help us understand that question better, but... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/920404?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:57:03 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/920216?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Researchers from the Seaver and NY Autism Center of Excellence at New York s Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new method to detect copy number variants associated with autism spectrum disorders and have also found new chromosomal dup... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/920216?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:43:20 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919983?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Anecdotally, you may have heard of people with autism who are gifted or talented in the arts, music or math. Now researchers have actually found evidence that autism is associated with intellectual skills. The finding has emerged from a study of auti... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919983?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:08:58 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/919903?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Yesterday, for no particular reason, The Boston Globe published one of those stories we see at least once or twice every year we are on the verge of unraveling the genetics of mental illness. Sadly, the article provides no more detail as to why w... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/919903?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:06:02 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/919758?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Currently, there s no prenatal genetic test for autism. Long ago (as in around the time I first started writing this blog ) I referred to such testing as fighting word : While some would welcome the notion of knowing that a child-to-be wo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/919758?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:46:53 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919727?rsstype=tag&tag=genes The gene for male-pattern baldness (androgen receptor) has traditionally been linked to the X chromosome which means mom passes it on to her sons. Now, two new independent studies published yesterday at the Nature Genetics identified association bet... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919727?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:26:22 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919309?rsstype=tag&tag=genes A new study found that premature ejaculation is not purely psychological. Genetics has a lot to do with it.Scientists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands studied 89 Dutch men who had primary premature ejaculation , which means they suffer... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/919309?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:40:53 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/918995?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Or so suggests this study, so I write this with raised eyebrows.Scientists have identified a common genetic variation that appears to weaken a man s ability to emotionally attach to one partner.Findings from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/918995?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:15:36 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/918807?rsstype=tag&tag=genes A study of autism among 378 Cambridge University students has found that autism is up to seven times more common among mathematicians than among students in other disciplines, and that it was also five times more common in the siblings of mathematici... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/918807?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:01:41 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/916914?rsstype=tag&tag=genes So after a decade or more of modern neuroscience research using fMRI and other advanced imaging scans as well as extensive gene studies, what do we know about the brain? It is a far more complex organ than we previously had imagined. A great article ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/916914?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:48:11 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/916003?rsstype=tag&tag=genes An article in the September 10th New England Journal of Medicine entitled Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes describes the associations between a microdeletion at 1q21.1 and impairments including mental re... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/916003?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:13:31 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-sports-medicine/914590?rsstype=tag&tag=genes There has always been a lot of confusion in the world of nutritional supplements. What vitamins to take? What minerals are important? What antioxidants do I need? How much do I take, how do I know what s right for me? Etc etc etc yada yada... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/natural-sports-medicine/914590?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:35:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/913197?rsstype=tag&tag=genes In the ongoing chicken and egg type debate over what the causes of autism might be, how often have you it said that it s believed that a child may have a genetic predisposition to autism, but that it s an environmental trigger -it ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/913197?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:01:41 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/911465?rsstype=tag&tag=genes The New York Times today had a great grounded piece on the state of our knowledge into schizophrenia, a relatively uncommon mental disorder (that gets a lot of attention more because of its severity, not because of its prevalence). The reality is tha... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/world-of-psychology/911465?rsstype=tag&tag=genes Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:23:15 -0400