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New evidence ties gene to Alzheimer’s

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by admin.

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Of dozens of candidates potentially involved in increasing a person’s risk for the most common type of Alzheimer’s disease that affects more than 5 million Americans over the age of 65, one gene that keeps grabbing Johns Hopkins researchers’ attention makes a protein called neuroglobin.
Adding to a growing body of evidence about the importance of [...]

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DNA repair patterns may predict risk of pancreatic cancer

Posted on 18. Jan, 2009 by admin.

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PHILADELPHIA – Genetic variations in DNA repair patterns may increase risk of pancreatic cancer by as much as threefold or decrease it by as much as 77 percent, depending on the genes involved, according to a report published in the January 15, 2009, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for [...]

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