A quick video about Cuckoo Genetics
A short clip showing the difference between a homozygous and heterozygous wc cuckoo male. Females will have only 1 copy of the gene (if they don #39;t they will be wc black) while males can have 1 or two copies of the gene. This holds true in self cuckoos as well as the white crested varieties. The gene responsible for the cuckoo pattern also limits the blue coloration in the legs. As a result many cuckoos (and creles) will have white, very pale blue, or white with random blue marked legs. I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (www.youtube.com

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Nonsense mutations
For more information, log on to- shomusbiology.weebly.com Download the study materials here- shomusbiology.weebly.com In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and in a truncated, incomplete, and usually nonfunctional protein product. It differs from a missense mutation, which is a point mutation where a single nucleotide is changed to cause substitution of a different amino acid. Some genetic disorders, such as thalassemia and DMD, result from nonsense mutations. DNA: 5 #39; - ATG ACT CAC CGA GCG CGA AGC TGA - 3 #39; 3 #39; - TAC TGA GTG GCT CGC GCT TCG ACT - 5 #39; mRNA: 5 #39; - AUG ACU CAC CGA GCG CGA AGC UGA - 3 #39; Protein: Met Thr His Arg Ala Arg Ser Stop Suppose that a nonsense mutation was introduced at the fourth triplet in the DNA sequence (CGA) causing the cytosine to be replaced with thymine, yielding TGA in the DNA sequence. Since TGA is transcribed-then-translated as UGA, the resulting transcript and protein product would be: DNA: 5 #39; - ATG ACT CAC TGA GCG CGA AGC TGA - 3 #39; 3 #39; - TAC TGA GTG ACT CGC GCT TCG ACT - 5 #39; mRNA: 5 #39; - AUG ACU CAC UGA GCG CGU AGC UGA - 3 #39; Protein: Met Thr His Stop The remaining codons of the mRNA are not translated into amino proteins because the stop codon is prematurely reached during translation. This can yield a truncated abbreviated protein product, which quite often lacks the functionality of the normal, non-mutant protein.

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Origin of spontaneous mutations
For more information, log on to- shomusbiology.weebly.com Download the study materials here- shomusbiology.weebly.com In genetics, a mutation is a change of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal genetic element. Mutations result from unrepaired damage to DNA or to RNA genomes (typically caused by radiation or chemical mutagens), from errors in the process of replication, or from the insertion or deletion of segments of DNA by mobile genetic elements.[1][2][3] Mutations may or may not produce discernable changes in the observable characteristics (phenotype) of an organism. Mutations play a part in both normal and abnormal biological processes, including evolution, cancer, and the development of the immune system. Mutation can result in several different types of change in sequences; these can either have no effect, alter the product of a gene, or prevent the gene from functioning properly or completely. One study on genetic variations between different species of Drosophila suggests that if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, the result is likely to be harmful, with an estimated 70 percent of amino acid polymorphisms having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.[4] Due to the damaging effects that mutations can have on genes, organisms have mechanisms such as DNA repair to prevent mutations.[1]

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AP Biology cvitale Microbes 2.mp4
Table of Contents: 00:12 - BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA 00:31 - LIKE EUKARYOTES 00:49 - UNLIKE EUKARYOTES 01:13 - COLONIES 01:18 - CELL WALL 01:44 - GRAM STAINING 02:44 - SHAPE 03:30 - OTHER STRUCTURES 03:58 - MOVEMENT 05:19 - GENETICS OF BACTERIA 05:45 - BINARY FISSION 06:19 - REPRODUCTION AND MUTATIONS 07:02 - TRANSFORMATION 07:37 - TRANSDUCTION 08:30 - CONJUGATION 09:22 - PLASMID TYPES 10:15 - ENDOSPORES 10:41 - COMMUNICATION 11:10 - BIOLUMINESCENCE 11:24 - OBLIGATE ANAEROBES 11:46 - FACULTATIVE ANAEROBES 11:55 - OBLIGATE AEROBES 12:01 - PHOTOAUTOTROPHS 12:38 - PHOTOHETEROTROPHS 13:07 - CHEMOAUTOTROPHS 13:42 - CHEMOHETEROTROPHS 14:04 - NITROGEN AND SULFUR METABOLISM 14:45 - NITROGEN FIXATION 15:27 - HETEROCYTES 16:08 - LATERAL GENE TRANSFER 16:36 - ARCHAEA 17:23 - METHANOGENS 17:34 - SPIROCHETES 17:55 - CHLAMYDIAS 18:14 - HIGH GC GRAM + BACTERIA 18:46 - CYANOBACTERIA 19:10 - LOW GC GRAM + BACTERIA 19:51 - PROTEOBACTERIA 20:20 - ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIA 20:33 - BETA PROTEOBACTERIA 20:40 - GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIA 20:58 - DELTA PROTEOBACTERIA 21:12 - EPSILON PROTEOBACTERIA 22:38 - DECOMPOSERS 22:54 - SYMBIOSIS 23:33 - PATHOGEN 23:43 - BACTERIAL DISEASE 24:29 - TECHNOLOGY 25:15 -

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Should you change your approach to weight loss based on blood type?
You can learn a lot from your blood cholesterol levels genetics liver function. And now some believe blood is the key to weight loss.

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The Lifeless-"Mouthful of Genetics"
Our first song titled "Mouthful of Genetics". Let us know what you think!

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Gnu Snowboards on Sale For Men or Women in Riders Choice Model Bought Used For Park All Mountain
Gnu snowboards makes some of the best men #39;s and women #39;s boards on the market. From the Riders Choice here to other top rated and reviewed snowboard models like the Carbon Credit, Park Pickle, Altered Genetics, Billy Goat, Street Series or the new Eco-Genetics as well as the multiple pro models (Danny Kass, Forest Bailey). For women, there #39;s the B-Nice, B-Pro, B-Street, Ladies Choice and Ladies Pickle. The company even makes split boards and sizes for youth boys and girls. The Gnu Riders Choice snowboard in this video is from the #39;08 - #39;09 season and features magna traction (mtx), banana traction (btx) and is in the 151.5 size. It has the skate banana design and is a twin tip. The board has been used many times each season and is still in great shape and really lives up to the Gnu name brand. It #39;s great in groomed park runs as well as all mountain riding in powder. These boards are made by Mervin, which makes Lib Tech and Roxy women #39;s snowboards, so there #39;s a lot of technology that goes into the design of all the Gnu snowboards that are available for sale currently and even when it comes to recent used snowboards for sale by GNU. Check Out More Snowboard Gear in Our Snowboarding Equipment Playlist: http://www.youtube.com Thanks for watching / reading... -YT/PeepMYSteelo [youtube.com Gnu Homagepage: http://www.gnu.com

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Some Core Exercises with Sponsored Athlete Kimberly Ho
Hey Everyone! Check out my latest video doing some core work at the gym. Music by my talented friend Tiffany Ponce. Go check her out!!!! Seen wearing Public Myth Advanced Genetics http://www.publicmyth.com http Music By: Tiffany Ponce Song: "Tell Me I Can #39;t" Website: http://www.tiffanyponce.com Twitter twitter.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com Soundcloud: soundcloud.com

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M Cremo to be considered: Human Devolution A Vedic Alternative to Darwin #39;s Theory of Evolution
Fair Use Educational Non-Profit Upload Mirrored: http://www.youtube.com Human Devolution: A Vedic Altenative to Darwin #39;s Theory of Evolution - Michael Cremo Description - October 10,2003: Longtime Vedic scholar says humankind did not evolve from apes, rather, we devolved from a higher plane of consciousness into matter, as described in the Vedas, and how Alred R. Wallace, whose theory of evolution by natural selection was published with Darwin #39;s, got co-credit until he later suggested that evolution was directed by cosmic intelligence. Where did we come from? Drawing upon a wealth of research into archeology, genetics, reincarnation memories, out-of-body experiences, parapsychology, cross cultural cosmology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Cremo provides a refreshing perspective. "We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure consciousness, spirit," writes Michael Cremo." About the Author An ardent critic of the abuse of scientific position and power, Michael Cremo is considered a leading authority on anomalous archeological evidence relating to the antiquity of the human race. His persistent investigation during the eight years of writing the internationally acclaimed book, Forbidden Archeology has documented a major scientific cover-up. http://www.lauralee.com Michael Cremo http http://www.mcremo.com

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Researchers from the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) have claimed a first by successfully using a single session of gene therapy to cure dogs of type 1 diabetes. The work has shown that it is possible to cure the disease in large animals with a minimally-invasive procedure potentially leading the way to further developments in studies for human treatment of the disease.

The researchers, led by Ftima Bosch, showed that after only a single gene therapy session the dogs no longer displayed symptoms of type 1 diabetes. In some of the cases, monitoring continued over a four-year period with no recurrence of the disease. The same team has previously tested the therapy on mice, but these recent and highly positive results are, as Ftima Bosch says, the first to demonstrate a long-term cure for diabetes in a large animal model using gene therapy.

Using simple needles common in cosmetics treatments, the single session consisted of various injections in the animals rear legs in what is said to be a safe and stress-free procedure. The injections introduce gene therapy vectors with two objectives firstly, to express the insulin gene and secondly, to introduce the enzyme glucokinase.

Glucokinase is an enzyme which regulates the uptake of glucose from the blood. When both genes function in unison they work as a kind of glucose sensor that reduces diabetic hyperglycemia (the excess of blood sugar associated with the disease) by automatically regulating the glucose uptake.

The study highlights the safety of gene therapy mediated by adeno-associated vectors (AAV) in diabetic canines. These vectors, derived from non-pathogenic viruses, are commonly used in other gene therapies and have claimed success in the treatment of several other diseases.

Over the long term, the dogs that were treated displayed good glucose control when fasting and after eating, and also after exercising which is an improvement on dogs that receive daily injections of insulin. No occurrences of hypoglycemia were recorded. Adding to this, the dogs treated with adeno-associated vectors maintained good body weight and did not develop secondary complications.

As there have been numerous clinical trials where AAV vectors have been introduced into skeletal muscle, the strategy applied in this research is certainly valid for clinical application in a wider sense. Further studies and development of the treatment should lead to veterinary trials, which may in turn supply key information for trials with human diabetes sufferers into the future.

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London, Feb. 9 (ANI): A patient's own skin could be used to repair the damage caused by multiple sclerosis, which is currently incurable, researchers have claimed.

A team of researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Centre used advances in stem-cell research to attempt to repair the myelin, a protein that nerves insulate themselves with, the BBC reported.

They took a human skin cell sample and converted it into stem cells -capable of becoming any other type of cell in the body.

The next step was to transform the stem cells into immature versions of brain cells, which produce myelin.

According to the researchers, when these cells were injected into mice born without any myelin it had a significant effect.

However, patients suffering from multiple sclerosis are still going to have the problem of their immune system attacking their myelin.

Another treatment would need to be used alongside other therapies for taming the immune system - or would need to be repeatedly performed.

The animal tests have been published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. (ANI)

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In recent years there has been a sharp increase in the public’s awareness of the potential for traumatic brain injury in certain contact sports.  Unfortunately, not much is known yet about acute traumatic brain injury.  In order to protect athletes more effectively we need to know a lot more, starting with accurate diagnosis.

Fortunately, progress may come soon.  Starting next month, the NFL will partner with General Electric in a $30 million effort to learn how to diagnose and track the time course of traumatic brain injury, according to an article in the New York Times and on the NFL’s website.   GE will focus on the development, refinement, and validation of imaging techniques such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).   MRI is already being used to study multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease, but its usefulness in diagnosing head injury has not been proven.  The goal would be to be able to diagnose and quantify the extent of an acute brain injury quickly and then to track the time course of recovery, so that better decisions could be made regarding when an athlete could safely return to the field of play.  Imaging techniques might also be used to accurately diagnose chronic traumatic brain disease.  The NFL and GE expect their joint effort to show significant progress within 4 years.

The ability to diagnose and track the extent of brain injury would be useful beyond sports, of course.  Many soldiers have suffered acute traumatic brain injury during combat, and traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death among children and young adults.Source:
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Some patients suffer from nearly constant intense pain. Pain management is complex enough that it has become a true medical specialty. Years of medical specialty training are required, culminating in certification by the American Board of Pain Medicine. Management of chronic pain requires a multi-faceted approach that includes careful medical evaluation after referral by a licensed physician; a full understanding of the source of the pain; attempts to reduce pain by non-narcotic means; and when all else fails, minimal doses of pain medications dispensed under strict medical supervision. Patients generally have insurance coverage because their pain has been properly diagnosed and is being legitimately treated.

Unfortunately, certain legitimate pain medications are also popular street drugs. And that has given rise to “pill mills” – medical clinics masquerading as pain management centers that are in reality just high-profit pain medication dispensaries. At pill mills, patients are prescribed unusually large doses of narcotics such as oxycodone, generally for cash and generally without extensive diagnosis or alternative treatment. Many of these pills are later sold for cash on the black market, rather than being used by the “patients” themselves.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the state of Georgia has developed a “pill mill” problem in the wake of an aggressive crackdown on such clinics in Florida. The clinics simply moved north, where current Georgia laws make it hard to prosecute such clinics effectively. Georgia, like most states, does not require medical clinics to be owned by a medical professional and does not track the number of prescriptions each clinic writes.

The state of Georgia will surely do something about its pill mill problem in due time. But until there’s a national solution or at least communication and coordination among the states, the pill mills are likely to just move elsewhere.

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Spinal Cord Injury Attorney Central Florida -- Moody Law
Any damage to the spinal cord can cause inhibited motor functions and paralysis. The Central Florida spinal cord injury attorneys of Moody Law can offer sound legal advice regarding life-altering injuries and build the most compelling case possible on behalf of those affected. Proudly serving the Central Florida area, including Winter Haven and Lakeland, a spinal cord injury lawyer from Moody Law has the experience, knowledge, and drive needed to help your family obtain just compensation. For more information, visit http://www.moodylaw.com. You may contact our Florida personal injury attorneys at: Moody Law (877) 883-9090 Toll Free (863) 284-9090 Lakeland (863) 297-9090 Winter Haven (863) 733-9090 Bartow Website: http://www.moodylaw.com

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Spinal Cord Injury -- Central Florida Personal Injury - Moody Law
There are a number of surgeries available to patients who have suffered a neck or spinal cord injury. Although every surgery carries some risk of complication, if a patient suffers complications due to a healthcare professional #39;s negligence and failure to uphold the standards of surgical care that a patient is entitled to, our team can step in. At the Bartow and Lakeland offices of Moody Law, serving Polk County and Central Florida, a spinal cord injury lawyer with the experience and knowledge needed to help maximize your case results can offer sound legal counsel. For more information, visit http://www.moodylaw.com. You may contact our Florida personal injury attorneys at Moody Law (877) 883-9090 Toll Free (863) 284-9090 Lakeland (863) 297-9090 Winter Haven (863) 733-9090 Bartow Website: http://www.moodylaw.com

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Skin stem cells hold promise for burn patients
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Stem Cell Therapy Webinar with Dr. Kamau Kokayi at Patients Medical
Join us as Dr. Kamau Kokayi, Director of Cell Technologies at the New York Stem Cell Treatment Center at Patients Medical in NYC explains what Adipose Derived Stem Cell Therapy is and what types of medical conditions Dr. Kokayi and his team of researchers are enrolling for the clinical trial.

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Even if the patients hadn't been as young as 4 months old, the surgery would have been harrowing: six holes bored into the skull, six tiny tubes inserted directly into targeted parts of the brain, then a solution containing hundreds of millions of viruses pumped in.

But the rare degenerative illness it fights is even scarier. Canavan disease strikes infants, essentially making the brain attack itself with a toxic chemical, and stopping and reversing development. It then kills the child, usually before age 10.

There is a procedure that appears to slow Canavan's progress and improves -- and may even help extend -- sufferers' lives, according to a study that appeared last month in the online journal Science Translational Medicine. It does that by using viruses as microscopic trucks to deliver missing genetic material precisely.

This form of gene therapy was created at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the viral vehicle and genetic cargo used in the study were developed there at the medical school's Gene Therapy Center. Center director R. Jude Samulski was a senior author of the study, which began in 2001 and tracked 13 children who received the treatment.

The youngest was 4 months old, the oldest nearly 7 years old when they got the operation. After the procedure, the researchers, led by Paola Leone, an associate professor of cell biology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, followed them to see how the therapy affected their illness.

To an outsider, the results might not even be noticeable. To the families, though, the changes began quickly and were nothing short of dramatic.

"Right away, we saw a significant change in his eyes," said Jordana Holovach, of Rye, N.Y., whose son Jacob participated in the study. "He then was able to regain some of the strength he had lost in grasping, improved his head control, his immune system clearly got better, and he was even with some assistance able to take steps, something we never thought we'd be able to see."

Jacob, who had the operation in 2001, will be 17 years old in February. He has grown so much that he doesn't have the strength to take steps now, but attends a mainstream high school, albeit with substantial help.

Ilyce Randell of Buffalo Grove, Ill., whose son Max was diagnosed when he was little more than 4 months old, said that he hadn't seemed to use his eyes at all before the operation, which he had when he was 3 years old. Not long after it, though, he clearly was focusing on things, and began using his arms.

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Feb. 8, 2013 Every gene in the nucleus of an animal or plant cell is packaged into a beads-on-a-string like structure called nucleosomes: the DNA of the gene forms the string and a complex of proteins called histones forms the beads around which the DNA is wrapped. Scientists of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, have now established that adding chemical tags on histones is critical for regulating gene activity during animal development.

Studies over the past two decades revealed that many proteins that control the activity of genes are enzymes that add small chemical tags on histone proteins but also on a variety of other proteins. With their studies the researchers have now shown that it is the tags on the histones that control if genes are active or inactive.

Their results were published in the journal Science.

Histone proteins can be modified by a number of different chemical tags at very specific sites. The researchers in the Research Group 'Chromatin Biology' of Jrg Mller focused on the histone tag that is added by an enzyme called Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2). PRC2 is essential for a variety of different cell fate decisions in animals and plants. PRC2 functions to keep genes inactive in cells and at times where they should remain inactive.

Using the model organism Drosophila -- the fruit fly -- the scientists now generated animals with cells expressing an altered histone protein to which PRC2 can no longer add the tag. These cells cannot keep genes inactive anymore and many cell fate decisions go awry, exactly like in cells that lack the PRC2 enzyme.

"This observation demonstrates that the business end is the tag on the histone and not on some other protein" says Ana Pengelly, the PhD student who conducted the experiments. Her colleague Omer Copur adds: "The approach we used permits us to now also investigate the function of other tags on histone proteins that have a different chemical nature." The insight gained from the work on PRC2 provides a strong impetus to figure how this tag alters the beads-on-a-string structure of genes and thereby controls gene activity.

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Patients with advanced melanoma face the possibility they could survive much longer with drugs that fire up their immune system to fight cancer but steep odds the therapy will work for them.

Less than 20 percent of patients with the deadly skin cancer respond to the treatment, which is known as immunotherapy, according to the Melanoma Research Foundation.

New research out of Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida takes another step toward identifying patients who should try the therapy and which ones should initially concentrate on other treatments.

Moffitt researchers identified a unique group of genes, known as a "gene signature," linked to the presence of lymph node-like structures on melanoma tumors from some patients.

Previous research has shown those lymph node-like structures are associated with higher survival rates among cancer patients. It's unclear why, but Moffitt researchers speculate that the structures play an important role in fighting tumors.

Patients with such internal tumor fighters might be the best candidates for immunotherapy, researchers say.

Being able to direct advanced melanoma patients to the most promising treatment would be huge, given that time is such a critical issue, said senior Moffitt researcher James Mule.

"Why hold up a patient on a therapy when you don't know if it's going to work or not?" he said.

The Moffitt study analyzed 15,000 tumors of different types, including metastatic melanoma. Because immunotherapy is used most often in melanoma patients, the work will initially focus on that cancer. But Moffitt hopes future findings may be applied to lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers.

The study was published in Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group. Moffitt has begun running experimental clinical trials to see how melanoma patients with the gene signature respond to immunotherapy.

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Rep. Cheape addresses HB 174 - Relating to Food Labeling
RELATING TO FOOD LABELING. Report Title: Genetically Engineered Organisms; Produce; Labeling; Import Description: Requires all imported genetically engineered fresh produce sold in Hawaii to be labeled as "genetically engineered". Requires disclosure of genetic engineering and compliance with recommendations of the Invasive Species Council upon import. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB174 HD1) Reported from AGR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 253) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC. 2/8/2013 H Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Fale, Fukumoto, Oshiro, Tsuji, Ward voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cachola, Har, McDermott excused (3). Contact: repcheape@capitol.hawaii.gov

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Genetic trigger for heart ailment

(AFP) / 9 February 2013

A genetic variation doubles the risk of developing calcium deposits in the heart, a common condition that, in severe cases, can narrow or block the aorta, according to a study.

The genetic variation, found in seven per cent of the population, provides important clues about how to treat the disease, researchers said in the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

This is an important step forward in understanding the biology of the development of aortic stenosis, said senior author Wendy Post, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

She added that the latest findings could lead to the development of targeted medications to slow the progression of the disease, which can cause chest pain and shortness of breath, and can in some cases require surgery.

The gene in question is involved in the production of a type of cholesterol particle called lipoprotein (a), which circulates in the blood.

Increased levels of lipoprotein (a) have been previously associated with aortic valve disease. However, prior studies could not differentiate whether it was simply a marker or a causal factor, said lead author Catherine Campbell, of Kaiser Permanente.

Our results provide the first evidence for a causal relationship, she added.

The researchers studied 2.5 million gene variants among more than 6,900 people of white European heritage, and they found that the particular variant was strongly associated with the aortic calcium deposits.

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