An international team of genetic researchers led by Prof Merlin Crossley from the University of New South Wales has found the third and final missing piece in the genetic puzzle of an unusual form of haemophilia, known as haemophilia B Leyden, more than two decades after the first two pieces were discovered. The discovery, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics,…
ISG postdoctoral fellow, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook is interviewed by the UCLA Newsroom about her recent research into postpartum depression. Excerpt: “Scientists recruited 210 pregnant women of different ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds, surveying them three times during pregnancy — at 19, 29 and 37 weeks — and then eight weeks after giving birth. The women were asked in interviews about how much…
ISG faculty Christina Palmer, Janet Sinsheimer, and Wayne Grody along with ISG associates Michelle Fox and Patrick Boudreault and their colleagues published a paper, “Deaf Genetic Testing and Psychological Well-Being in Deaf Adults” in February’s Journal of Genetic Counseling. Abstract: Limited data suggest that enhanced self-knowledge from genetic information related to non-medical traits can have a positive impact on psychological well-being. Deaf individuals undertake genetic testing for…
A sleep deficit – even just a week’s worth – can have damaging effects on our genes, researchers said in a new study. Lack of adequate shut-eye had already been linked to conditions from heart disease and cognitive impairment to obesity. But sleep researcher Derk-Jan Dijk and his fellow researchers have delved into the molecular mechanisms behind the phenomenon, looking…
A 20-year-old Chinese geneticist who has been dubbed the nation’s “Bill Gates” is three months away from releasing the results of a groundbreaking but controversial study to identify the genetics behind high IQ in humans. The Wall Street Journal reports on the fascinating career of Zhao Bowen, a child prodigy in charge of the cognitive genetics lab at BGI, a private company…
Margaret Hawkins Abbott, a retired Johns Hopkins Medical School genetics researcher who investigated families with inherited conditions for nearly five decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 1 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 89 and lived in Ruxton. “She was a Johns Hopkins institution,” said Dr. Jason Brandt, Johns Hopkins Medical School director of medical psychology and professor of psychiatry.…