Genetic influence on cancer
Genetic analysis predicts susceptibility to heart attacks and cancer The investigation was conducted by a university professor of 40 years that sequenced his own genome and discovered how the future was a high risk of dying from a heart attack and prostate cancer.
The analysis of a person’s genes can help predict the propensity to die from cancer or suffer a heart attack, released the magazine “The Lancet” in its latest issue.
During the study of their genes by experts from Stanford University found that the man has variants in three genes associated with sudden cardiac death, the TMEM43, DSP and MYBPC3.
The volunteer has a family history of sudden death, as a distant cousin died at age 19 of a heart attack while sleeping.
Genetic testing done from a computer algorithm showed that treatment with statins, a medicine used to lower cholesterol, boost your health.
The Stanford team found that the likelihood that the university professor of prostate cancer increased from 16 percent to 23 percent. But the risk posed to develop Alzheimer’s disease decreased from nine percent to 1.4 percent.
The results of a study by scientists at Stanford University may help prevent disease in people with genetic predisposition to allergies.