Genes May Shape the Environments That Shape Our Minds, Massive Study Finds
A study of over 300,000 UK Biobank participants finds that polygenic scores for psychiatric conditions predict exposure to environmental risk ...
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Genetic Map of Childhood Obesity Reveals Variants That Act Only in Early Life
A landmark genome-wide study of nearly 600,000 individuals identifies 624 genetic signals for childhood adiposity, many of which act only ...
New AI Model Learns the Hidden Architecture of Human Genetic Variation
Researchers have unveiled Genetic Probabilistic Circuits, a deep generative model that captures long-range genetic correlations, improves genotype imputation for underrepresented ...
Birth Cohorts and Bias Distort How Genes Shape Traits Across Age
A large UK Biobank analysis shows that cross-sectional and longitudinal studies yield directionally consistent but systematically different estimates of age-varying ...
Body Roundness Index Predicts Progression of Heart, Kidney and Metabolic Disease
A large UK Biobank study using multistate models found that a high body roundness index strongly predicts the onset of ...
Scientists Pinpoint a Blood Protein That Helps Drive Kidney Disease in Diabetes
A large mendelian randomization study identifies the circulating protein INHBC as a mediator linking Type 2 diabetes to chronic kidney ...
Pregnancy Complications May Set the Stage for Heart, Kidney and Metabolic Disease Decades Later
A 44-year UK Biobank study of over 165,000 women finds that adverse pregnancy outcomes more than triple the risk of ...
Routine Blood Test Marker RDW Linked to Higher Hip Fracture Risk in Older Adults
A large UK Biobank cohort study finds that higher red blood cell distribution width, a routine blood count measure, is ...
Gut-Friendly Diet Linked to 16% Lower Bowel Disease Risk in Landmark Study
A large UK Biobank study finds that higher adherence to a microbiota-supportive diet is associated with a reduced risk of ...
Sweet Tooth, Faster Aging: Dietary Preferences Linked to Dementia Risk
A large UK Biobank cohort study finds that a sweet-tooth dietary preference profile is associated with sharply higher dementia risk, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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