Ovulation-blocking gene found

Case-control and family-based association studies of candidate genes in autistic disorder and its endophenotypes: TPH2 and GLO1

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“TPH2 gene variants are unlikely to contribute to autism or to the presence/absence of prominent repetitive behaviors in our sample, although an influence on the intensity of these behaviors in autism cannot be excluded. GLO1 gene variants do not confer autism vulnerability in this sample, but allele A419 apparently carries a protective effect, spurring interest into functional correlates of the C419A SNP.”

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Can asthma control be improved by understanding the patients perspective?

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"Optimum review of asthma is essential to improve control. A key priority is the development of simple and effective tools for identifying poor control for individual patients coupled with a tailored approach to treatment to enable patients to set and achieve realistic goals for asthma control."

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Scientists Implicate Gene in Vitiligo and Other Autoimmune Diseases

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"In a study appearing in the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health抯 National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have discovered a connection between a specific gene and the inflammatory skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases."

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Scientists reveal structure of gateways to gene control

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Scientists at Penn State University will reveal in the 29 March 2007 issue of the journal Nature the first complete high-resolution map of important structures that control how genes are packaged and regulated throughout an entire genome. The research suggests how these nucleosomes, positioned at important transcription-promoter sites throughout the cell's DNA, control whether or not a gene's function can be turned on in a particular cell.

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