Scientists have found important genetic differences that significantly raise the risk of stroke, and they are found in millions of people.
The study is the first to identify common genetic variants influencing stroke risk in the United States and may lead to better treatments, they reported on Wednesday.
While other stroke-related genes have been discovered, none involved such a wide portion of the population, said Eric Boerwinkle of The University of Texas Health Science Center.
INDIANAPOLIS, (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’ve created a comprehensive biological model of bipolar disorder.
Neuroscientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine “combined data from the latest large-scale international gene hunting studies for bipolar disorder with information from their own studies and have identified the best candidate genes for the illness,” the university said Friday in a release.
New discoveries about the genetic roots of gout may lead to new gout treatments and new tests to gauge a person’s risk of developing gout.
Researchers including Abbas Dehghan, MD, of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands report that news in tomorrow’s online edition of The Lancet.
Dehghan’s team studied gene data from three long-term health studies that together included more than 26,700 participants in the U.S. and the Netherlands.
