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Environment and heredity – ending
We continue to talk about the extent to which a person's individual qualities – his character traits, inclinations, diseases - are biologically predetermined from birth.
06 July 2015 -
A purely Greenlandic cause of diabetes
There is no such mutation in the genome of Europeans, but it occurs in 23% of Greenlanders. 60% of individuals over the age of 40 who inherited a certain variant of the TBC1D4 gene from both parents suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus.
19 June 2014 -
Delayed-action genes
A healthy person is a carrier of approximately 400 genetic variants that pose a potential threat to health, and 2 variants directly associated with diseases.
17 December 2012 -
The role of genetics and heredity in the development of cancer
Professor Larisa Akulenko, Head of the Department of Medical Genetics of RSMSU, tells about the mechanism of development of hereditary cancers, the possibilities of medicine in the fight against them and the latest genetic developments in this area.
28 March 2012 -
"Genes of alcoholism" and adequate self-esteem
To date, dozens of genes have been found, the disruption of which is supposed to increase the risk of alcoholism. But a hereditary predisposition to the disease manifests itself if both genes and the environment act in the same direction. We can't change genes yet, but we can change the environmental conditions to reduce the risk.
29 May 2008