Gene Variation

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  Gene Mutation Behind Different COVID-19 Death Rates Among Indian States: Study

  Variation in a genetic mutation among Indians may be the main reason behind the difference in the death rates due to COVID-19 across various states of the country, says a study that could inform new policies for controlling the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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  Decoded: Why People Love To Have Coffee Or Beer

  Scientists have found that taste preferences for bitter or sweet beverages are not based on variations in our taste genes but rather genes related to the psychoactive properties of these beverages.

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  Genetic Risk Factor For Erectile Dysfunction Identified

  In a first, researchers have found a specific place in the human genome that raises a person's risk of erectile dysfunction.Researchers from the US-based Kaiser Permanente have found variations in genetic locus -- near the SIM1 gene -- were associated with 26 per cent increased risk of erectile dysfunction.

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  People With Genetic Sweet Tooth May Have Less Body Fat: Study

  According to the study published in the Scientific Journal Cell Reports, people who have a 'sweet tooth' gene variation that makes them crave and eat more sugar, are likely to have less body fat as compared to others

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  Gall Bladder Cancer: Scientists Identify Gene Variants Causing its Risk

  A new study shed light on the discovery of two gene variations that has influenced increased risk of gall bladder cancer amongst Indians.

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  Gene Variant May Drive Hunger For High-Fat Foods

  People with a variant of a particular gene prefer high-fat food compared to people without it, said a study Tuesday, suggesting our dietary preferences may be at last partly pre-coded.

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  Can't Live Without Coffee? Blame Your Genes

  Those who metabolize caffeine faster are more likely to drink more of it and the ones with only a couple of the gene variations are less likely to be heavy coffee drinkers than others.

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  5 New Genes May Lead To Customised Breast Cancer Treatment

  Scientists have uncovered five new genes associated with breast cancer and 13 new mutational signatures that influence tumour development, an advance that may lead to personalised healthcare for the deadly disease. The results of the largest-ever study to sequence the whole genomes of breast cancer also show what genetic variations exist in the dis...

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  Personalised Chemotherapy For Leukaemia Patients A Step Closer

  Researchers have determined how inherited gene variations lead to severe drug toxicity that may threaten chances for a cure in children with leukaemia, a finding which sets the stage to expand the use of a patient's genetic make-up to tailor chemotherapy.

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  Men with Alzheimer's Gene at Higher Brain Bleeding Risk

  A common genetic variation linked to Alzheimer's disease greatly raises the likelihood of brain bleeding in men as compared to women, scientists have found.

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  Single Gene Variation Linked to Obesity

  Researchers have identified a single variation in a gene that influences obesity in children and adults by lowering the levels of a certain protein that helps us feel full.

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  Smartphone users help find cancer cure with 'Genes in Space' game

  By playing the game, smartphone users provide unwitting analysis of variations in genetic data to scientists.

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  Alcoholism risk linked to genes

  People with certain variations in a gene called GABRA2 are at a higher risk for alcoholism.

• Gene variation linked to infertility in women

  Variation in a gene involved in regulating cholesterol has been linked to infertility in women, a study shows.According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, variation in a gene involved in regulating cholesterol in the bloodstream, which affects progesterone production in women, is linked to infertility in some women.The researchers have dev...

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  Discovered: Gene 'linked to misery'

  Scientists say a particular genetic variation decreases one's ability to fight off stressful events efficiently.