genetic cause

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered three genes that increase the risk of thyroid cancer, which is has the largest incidence increase in cancers among both men and women.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) A team of University of Missouri researchers have found that targeting a synthetic molecule to a specific gene could help the severity of the disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) -- the leading genetic cause of infantile death in the world.

(Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal) Researchers from the CHUM Research Centre have identified a new gene that predisposes people to both autism and epilepsy.

The results show for the first time the role of the SYN1 gene in autism, in addition to epilepsy, and strengthen the hypothesis that a deregulation of the function of synapse because of this mutation is the cause of both diseases.

(Imperial College London) A gene with a significant effect on regulating hemoglobin in the body has been identified as part of a genome-wide association study, which looked at the link between genes and hemoglobin level in 16,000 people.

The research was carried out by scientists from Imperial College London and published in Nature Genetics today.

It shows a strong association between a gene known as TMPRSS6 and the regulation of hemoglobin.