A genomic “butterfly effect” explains the risk of autism spectrum disorders
In this study, researchers analyzed large ASD whole-genome sequencing data and found that de novo promoter mutations in TADs containing ...
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Immunocompromised patients and COVID infections: who is at risk?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Early in the pandemic, clinicians noticed that some immunocompromised patients had persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, some lasting ...
Analysis reveals biomarkers that improve accuracy of predicting cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes
Global distribution of origin and ancestry of the populations studied and countries of affiliation and gender distribution of the authors ...
Research explains why a low-protein diet during pregnancy increases the risk of prostate cancer in offspring
Prostate cancer cells in rats subjected to maternal protein restriction. Credit: FAPESP Experiments on rats carried out by researchers at ...
New study highlights varied risk of persistent COVID-19 infection in immunocompromised patients
Kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA and culturable virus varied among immunocompromised groups. (A) Degradation of viral RNA from the upper ...
The higher the level of education, the lower the risk of dying
“Effects of education on adult mortality: global systematic review and meta-analysis” (Lancet Public Health, 2024) provides the most comprehensive evidence ...
Community perinatal mental health teams reduce risk of mental health relapse after delivery: study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain New research has found that women with a history of serious mental illness are at lower ...
Thinning of the brain region may signal dementia risk 5 to 10 years before symptoms
Strengths of significant association (regression t-values) for gray matter thickness in Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia compared to cognitively healthy controls ...
Global food production at risk as rising temperatures threaten farmers’ physical ability to work, new study finds
Physical work capacity (PWC) by latitude for global cropland for historical (1991-2010) and potential future (2041-2060 and 2081-2100 with SSP3-7.0 ...
New hope for early intervention against pancreatic cancer via AI-based risk prediction
List of selected features ranked by univariate AUC of PrismNN. The label diag refers to diagnostic features, medical-to-drug features, and ...
