A major cardiovascular risk factor is thickening of the heart walls (hypertrophy), which can result from high blood ...

Genetic studies of diseases map segments of the genome driving disease. But to understand how those changes contribute to disease progression, it is important to understand how they may alter gene ...

An international team of scientists, including from Rothamsted Research, have developed a new method to improve the accuracy of gene mapping in complex organisms—a breakthrough that could enhance ...

Twenty genetic variants pinpointed The study is based on data from the SCAPIS population study, the largest in Sweden in the field of heart, vascular, and lung disease, encompassing 30,000 randomly ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...