According to a new study, a gene that puts people on road to schizophrenia may provide protection against some forms of cancer.
According to a new study, a gene that puts people on road to schizophrenia may provide protection against some forms of cancer.
As per scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, the MET proto-oncogene is activated in a variety of tumor malignancies. The gene has recently also been linked to autism and has a role in neurodevelopment, which is why Katherine E. Burdick, PhD and her colleagues decided to look for a relationship between MET and schizophrenia in their large sample of patients.
Genes Associated With Limb Development is More Primitive Than Believed
A new study by a University of Chicago researcher has revealed that fish possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) much before animals with limbs (tetrapods)
A new study by a University of Chicago researcher has revealed that fish possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) much before animals with limbs (tetrapods)
To reach the conclusion, Dr. Burdick and colleagues examined the relationship between 21 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in MET and schizophrenia in 173 patients and 137 normal volunteers.
They found that several varieties of MET influenced the risk for schizophrenia, as well as general cognitive ability. The authors were able to replicate their findings in a second sample of 107 patients and 112 healthy volunteers.
Genes in Acutely Ill Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients Profiled by Pitt Researchers
A patient-driven effort to provide lung tissue for research may now help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are becoming dangerously ill
A patient-driven effort to provide lung tissue for research may now help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are becoming dangerously ill
It remains unclear exactly how the gene actually may increase the risk for schizophrenia while protecting against some forms of cancer.
Advertisement
Understanding Inherited Cancer Genes
The presence of a certain gene in women could be a foreboding of ill health. The gene in question, known to cause a condition called Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
The presence of a certain gene in women could be a foreboding of ill health. The gene in question, known to cause a condition called Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
TRI
Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Friedreich's Ataxia
Expansions of GAA repeats cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as Friedreich's ataxia.
Expansions of GAA repeats cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as Friedreich's ataxia.
