News tagged with genetic cause

Search for blood pressure secrets reveals a surprising new syndrome

Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Mirror, mirror: Scientists find cause of involuntary movements

Researchers have identified the genetic cause of mirror movements, where affected people are unable to move one side of the body without moving the other. For example, when trying to open and close their right hand, their ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

For the first time, scientists discover causative gene of a rare disorder by exome sequencing

(PhysOrg.com) -- UW researchers have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a rare disorder. The finding demonstrates the usefulness ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Process important to brain development studied in detail

Knowledge about the development of the nervous system is of the greatest importance for us to understand the function of the brain and brain disorders. Researchers at Uppsala University have examined the key step when genes ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new congenital neutropenia syndrome and causative gene mutation

A team of scientists has discovered a new syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), a rare disorder in which children lack sufficient infection-fighting white cells, and identified the genetic cause of ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Resequencing 50 accessions of rice cast new light on molecular breeding

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, announced that a study on resequencing 50 accessions of cultivated and wild rice was published online today in Nature Biotechnology. The study provides one of the largest genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0