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Kenneth M. Weiss, a population geneticist at Pennsylvania State University, said it will be difficult to determine the appropriate number of genetic markers necessary for the HapMap project’s objectives...
...pounds. And that is: How do some folks manage to live in the same "toxic environment" and never gain weight? Indeed, the question of why so many of us are fat is just half the puzzle. "You can just as easily flip it around," says Jeffrey Friedman, a molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University, "and ask why--despite equal access to calories--is anyone thin...
...lost on researchers, though with so much still unknown about chromosome 22--to say nothing of the other nine tentatively linked with bipolar--no one is ready to draw any conclusions. "There are probably genetic variants that cut across multiple systems in the brain," says Dr. John Kelsoe, psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San Diego...
...individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population. Those who can now be told that they will contract the disease relatively early in their lives belong...
Eventually, researchers would like to learn what role our genes, as opposed to our environment, play in the development of anxiety. "It has been known for some time that these disorders run in families," says Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. "So the next logical question is the nature-nurture issue." In other words, are anxious people born that way, or do they become anxious as a result of their life experiences...