Genes can have a powerful impact on our health, sometimes directly - through chromosome or single gene disorders - or by influencing our susceptibility to disease.
Many common drugs can have harmful side-effects. The Serious Adverse Events Consortium is working to understand the genetic background to these reactions. 13/10/09
Progressive hearing loss is a common and debilitating problem in humans, yet relatively little is known about the hundreds of genes thought to be involved. Professor Karen Steel's work work with mice is shedding light on the complex process of hearing. 14/04/09
Familial adenomatous polyposis is an inherited cancer syndrome which predisposes patients to early-onset colorectal cancer, amongst other cancers. 24/03/06
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