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Heart Failure Gene Discovered...In the Kidney - St. Louis News - Daily RFT - 0 views

  • risk for heart failure
  • e high blood pressure
  • t's related to the kidney.
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  • "It also makes hormones involved in maintaining blood volume."
  • So they began sequencing the kidney gene, looking for problems.
  • "The CLCNKA polymorphism decreases the kidney's functionality by about half,"
  • gene remains silent with no effect on the body until there's an injury to the heart
  • 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."
  • More blood with less space to move leads to high blood pressure
  • puts more pressure on the heart.
  • 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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Craving Coffee? It Might Be in Your Genes - Slashfood - 0 views

  • 3 o'clock caffeine craving can also be traced back to your gene
  • 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
  • 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."
  • CYP1A2 and AHR,
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BBC News - 'Tipsy' alcohol gene 'could help curb alcoholism' - 0 views

  • people who react strongly to alcohol are less likely to become addicted
  • the gene we have found tells us a lot about how alcohol affects the brain
  • 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
  • CYP2E1 on chromosome 10 appears to dictate whether a person can hold their drink better than others.
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Artificial Liver - 1 views

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    Artificial Liver Dateline: 04/08/99 The Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device, or ELAD, is the first artificial liver to use cells from humans rather than from pigs. The device is used to sustain patients awaiting a liver transplant or whose own liver is not functioning and needs to recover.
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Junk DNA Can Revive and Cause Disease, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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