MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'chromosomal'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:07 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4219746&cid=t_283448_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Foocyte-preservation-egg-freezing-readily-available-yet-still-experimental%2F2010.12.01 Oocyte preservation, or egg freezing as it’s popularly called, is now being offered by over half of U.S. fertility clinics, and half of those not offering it now plan to do so in the future. This according to a national survey conducted in mid 2009 and reported this week in Fertility and Sterility. Over two-thirds of the 143 centers offering oocyte cryopreservation will do it electively, as opposed to those that offer it only to women undergoing cancer treatments that threaten their natural fertility. Go West, But Be Prepared To Pay Centers located in the Western part of the U.S. are more likely to offer elective egg freezing than those in the East. Not surprisingly, centers that only accept out of pocket (as opposed to insurance) payments were more likely to offer the procedure, ref... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4219746 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:00:59 +0100 4219746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3983379&cid=t_283448_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F20%2Fstories-9-a-healthy-volunteer%2F The host of Next Grand Rounds (Pallimed) asked to submit a recent blog post from another blogger in addition to your own post. I choose “Orthostatics – one more time” from DB Medical rants and a post commenting on that from Musings of a Dinosaur. Bob Center’s (@medrants) posts was about the value of orthostatic vital [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3983379 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:43:37 +0100 3983379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3443913&cid=t_283448_131_f&fid=34995&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.discovermagazine.com%2Fgnxp%2F2010%2F04%2Fthe-many-lives-of-an-inverted-genomic-region%2F About five years ago Kari Stefansson published an interesting paper, A common inversion under selection in Europeans. The basic thrust of the results was that a particular genomic region in Europeans exhibited a pattern of variation whereby there was one variant which was inverted in relation to the modal type. They labelled them “H2″ and “H1″ respectively.  The region in question is spans ~900 kilobases on chromosome 17 and has within it the MAPT gene which is implicated in several neurological diseases. Stefansson et al. argued that H2 and H1 were long coexistent lineages, prevented from recombining due to the molecular genetic constraints of the chromosomal inversion, and each preserved within several human populations by balancing selection dynamics. That is, n... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3443913 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:49:25 +0100 3443913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2667652&cid=t_283448_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F03%2Fbeyond-brca1-brca2-u-k-researchers-identify-genetic-defect-that-could-increase-risk-of-ovarian-cancer-up-to-40%2F Scientists have located a region of DNA which – when altered – can increase the risk of ovarian cancer according to research published in Nature Genetics today. An international research group led by scientists based at the Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, at the University of Cambridge and UCL (University College London) searched [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2667652 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:59:29 +0100 2667652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390260&cid=t_283448_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F06%2Fpattern-of-genetic-faults-could-predict-whether-an-ovarian-cancer-patient-will-respond-to-common-chemo-drugs%2F “… A pattern of genetic defects in tumours could indicate whether ovarian cancer patients will respond to common chemotherapy drugs before treatment starts, reveals a Cancer Research UK study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … The researchers studied patterns of gene expression that indicate high levels of abnormal chromosomes or [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390260 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:16:10 +0100 2390260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750129&cid=t_283448_132_f&fid=35028&url=http%3A%2F%2Flurena.vox.com%2Flibrary%2Fpost%2Fdecipher.html%3F_c%3Dfeed-rss The Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources Nigel Carter Morning Session, 2 September (11th MGED Meeting, 1-4 September, 2008) Genomic disorders, e.g. Down's Syndrome (3 copies of chromosome 21). Need gen... Read and post comments | Send to a friend (Source: Systems Biology & Bioinformatics) Systems Biology & Bioinformatics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750129 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:35:39 +0100 1750129