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risk for heart failure
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e high blood pressure
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t's related to the kidney.
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"It also makes hormones involved in maintaining blood volume."
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So they began sequencing the kidney gene, looking for problems.
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"The CLCNKA polymorphism decreases the kidney's functionality by about half,"
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gene remains silent with no effect on the body until there's an injury to the heart
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the blood flow to the kidney decreases and the kidney secretes the hormones angiotensin and aldosterone which lead to a high risk of heart failure."
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More blood with less space to move leads to high blood pressure
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puts more pressure on the heart.
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presence of the gene drives the risk of heart failure from 20 percent to 27 percent for people with one copy and 54 percent for people with two
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3 o'clock caffeine craving can also be traced back to your gene
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depending on whether you carry a "high-consumption" variant or "low-consumption" variant of either gene determines just how fast or slow you metabolize caffeine
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genetics plays a big role in a lot of behaviors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption
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how much caffeine we drink."
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CYP1A2 and AHR,
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people who react strongly to alcohol are less likely to become addicted
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the gene we have found tells us a lot about how alcohol affects the brain
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Most of the alcohol people consume is broken down in the liver, but some is metabolised in the brain by an enzyme which the CYP2E1 gene
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"tipsy" version of CYP2E1 break down alcohol more readily, which explains why they feel the effects of alcohol much quicker than others
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CYP2E1 on chromosome 10 appears to dictate whether a person can hold their drink better than others.
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shared by pet-chompoo sa-ngarmangkang on 30 Mar 12 - No Cached

can rise from the dead like zombies
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dead gene come back to life and cause a disease
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function, if any, is largely unknown.
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function, if any, is largely unknown
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chromosome 4 was a problem.
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No one whose dead gene was repeated more than 10 times ever got FSHD
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