Recent advances in genetics of aggressive behavior

Recent advances in medical genetics.

Recent Advances in Stroke Genetics

Stroke is a complex, polygenic, and multi-factorial neurological disorder caused by a combination of environmental, vascular and genetic factors [1]. Despite new developments in the treatment and prevention, stroke accounts for the primary cause of adult disability, the second leading cause of dementia and the third leading cause of mortality in most of the developed countries [2], [3]. In the ...

Recent advances in asthma genetics

There are over 100 genes that have been reported to be associated with asthma or related phenotypes. In 2006-2007 alone there were 53 novel candidate gene associations reported in the literature. Replication of genetic associations and demonstration of a functional mechanism for the associated variants are needed to confirm an asthma susceptibility gene. For most of the candidate genes there is...

Recent advances in the genetics of osteoporosis.

It has been known for over 20 years that osteoporosis is highly influenced by genetic factors. Bone mineral density (BMD) has also been shown to be highly heritable. Other known risk factors for osteoporotic fractures such as reduced bone quality, femoral neck geometry and bone turnover are now also known to be heritable. Susceptibility to osteoporosis is mediated, in all likelihood, by multipl...

Recent advances in the genetics of schizophrenia

The high heritability of schizophrenia has stimulated much work aimed at identifying susceptibility genes using positional genetics. As a result, several strong and well-established linkages have emerged. Three of the best-supported regions are 6p24–22, 1q21–22 and 13q32–34 where single studies have achieved genomewide significance at P< 0.05 and suggestive positive findings have also been repo...