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Family health history a powerful, underused tool (AP)
WASHINGTON – Make Grandma spill the beans: Uncovering all the diseases that lurk in your family tree can trump costly genetic testing in predicting what illnesses you and your children are likely to face. It may sound old-fashioned, but a Cleveland Clinic study comparing which method best uncovered an increased risk of cancer helps confirm the value of what’s called a family health history.
Defect risk higher for assisted fertility babies
LONDON – Babies born to couples who had fertility treatment have a greater risk of birth abnormalities and doctors should be prepared to warn potential parents about these risks, French scientists said on Sunday. Clinical geneticist Geraldine Viot said couples considering undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment should be told that the risk of birth defects is around twice that of babies conceived naturally.
Heavy smoking mutates thousands of genes
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Heavy smokers who get lung cancer may have tens of thousands of genetic mutations, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. A team at Roche’s biotechnology unit Genentech in…
Conrad Gilliam Named Dean for Research at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division
Conrad Gilliam, PhD, has been named the Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, a new position, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Gilliam, the…
New Study Shows Hereditary Factors Contribute to Aneurysm Formation in Twins
Heredity for aneurysm much stronger among identical than fraternal twins A new study in the January issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery(®), published by the Society for Vascular Surgery®,…
Chicago Cancer Genome Project Studies Genetics of 1,000 Tumors
No two tumors are alike, but analyzing the genetics of cancers from different parts of the body may reveal surprising details useful for treatment and prevention. That process is already…
University of Chicago’s Donald Steiner Named 2009 Recipient of Major International Diabetes Prize
Donald F. Steiner, MD, the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, has been awarded the Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Prize for 2009, the foundation announced this week.
Janet Rowley Awarded Gruber Genetics Prize for Chromosome Studies
Discoveries Established Cancer as a Genetic Disease Janet Davison Rowley, MD, a founder in the field of cancer cytogenetics and a leader in molecular oncology, will receive the 2009 Genetics…