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| Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
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This weekly update provides information about the impact of human genetic research on disease prevention & public health. |
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Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. Most skin cancers are caused by exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. People who have a close relative (parent, sibling, or child) with a specific type of skin cancer called melanoma may be at greater risk of developing the disease than the general population.
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- The following are headlines from on-line news articles published during the past week.
- The headlines and lead sentence are exactly as they appear in the popular press & do not necessarily reflect the opinions or recommendations of CDC.
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“Volunteers sought for genetic map” 
(May 31) BBC News reports, “People in the South East are being asked to donate blood samples to help researchers study genetic differences.”
“Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients”
(May 30) EurekAlert! reports, “Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease typically characterized by the slow but progressive onset of shortness of breath or cough.”
“Genome researchers find new indicators of breast cancer risk”
(May 29) The New York Times reports, “In a long-delayed harvest from the human genome project, researchers say they have found six new sites of variation in the genome that increase the risk of breast cancer.”
“Detailed portrait of 700 proteins that help maintain DNA integrity”
(May 28) News-Medical.Net reports, “Cells have the remarkable ability to keep track of their genetic contents and -- when things go wrong, to step in and repair the damage before cancer or another life-threatening condition develops.”
“Researchers find alteration in gene associated with uterine cancer”
(May 25) News-Medical.Net reports, “Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have announced the discovery of previously unrecognized alterations in a gene called FGFR2 in a subset of endometrial cancers, the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States.”
“'Genetic Fingerprint' Becoming Younger In Healthy Seniors Who Do Resistance Training”
(May 24) Medical News Today reports, “Not only does exercise make most people feel better and perform physical tasks better, it now appears that exercise - specifically, resistance training - actually rejuvenates muscle tissue in healthy senior citizens.”
“Possible new breast cancer gene”
(May 24) EurekAlert! reports, “Researchers at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute describe in this week’s issue of Science a new candidate breast-cancer susceptibility gene.” |
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