Category: Genetics

Alzheimer’s disease risk linked to a network of genes associated with myeloid cells

From The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single… Read more »

Mice provide insight into genetics of autism spectrum disorders

From the University of California – Davis press release: While the definitive causes remain unclear, several genetic and environmental factors increase the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, a group… Read more »

Alzheimer’s gene associated with failure to adapt to cognitive challenge in healthy adults

From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Healthy adults carrying the gene APOE4 — the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — may struggle to adapt their brain… Read more »

Anxiety study shows genes are not fixed: Experience and exposure can change them

From the Research Society on Alcoholism press release: Epigenetics refers to how certain life circumstances can cause genes to be silenced or expressed, become dormant or active, over time. New research… Read more »

Early stress confers lifelong vulnerability causing alterations in a specific brain region

From the Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress through long-lasting transcriptional programming in a brain reward region implicated in mood… Read more »