Osteoarthritis genes unveiled
Tuesday January 22nd, 2019
Fifty-two new genetic changes linked to osteoarthritis have been discovered in the largest genetic
study of the degenerative joint disease to date, it was announced last night.
The findings of the study, which are published in Nature Genetics, doubles the number of genetic
regions associated with osteoarthritis, and could help with the development of new medicines.
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, GSK and their collaborators analysed patient data
from the UK Biobank resource and the arcOGEN study to examine the genomes of 370,000 healthy
people and more than 77,000 people with osteoarthritis.
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Body size 'influences women's lifespan'
Tuesday January 22nd, 2019
Body size, weight and height could influence a woman’s lifespan more than it influences
a man’s, a Dutch study published last night has claimed. More
