MyHeritage, a consumer genetic testing company, has added a risk score for genetic obesity and high body mass index (BMI) to its at-home product called MyHeritage DNA Health test. The addition comes along with six other new features, including an enhanced hereditary BRCA cancer report, and…
In contrast to previous reports, POMC deficiency leads to both obesity and high levels of the protein adiponectin, a study in mice suggested. Shedding light on the molecular workings of POMC deficiency, a rare form of genetic obesity, the research shows that a previously unknown pathway drives the…
The Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) recently created a Rare Disease Diversity Coalition focused on reducing racial disparities in the rare disease community. Getting a timely and accurate diagnosis for a disease that few people — sometimes even physicians — have heard of is challenging on its own merit.
A protein known as ATPase inhibitory factor I (IF1) was seen to limit obesity in mice on a high-fat diet by regulating genetic activity related to appetite in a sex-specific manner, researchers report. Using data from a large-scale study, the team from South Korea also found that a variant in…
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