Genetics/Genomics News

Researchers have identified genetic contributions to circulating levels of C-reactive protein in patients with stroke, which could help identify those at risk for recurrent ischemic stroke.

People who carry inactivating mutations of the ANGPTL4 gene have lower levels of triglycerides and are at lower risk for CAD compared with the general population, according to two genetic studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Children of mothers with dyslipidemia before pregnancy are at high risk for having high LDL as adults, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

Six rare genetic variants were more prevalent in those with sudden cardiac arrest than in the general population, according to new research.

Researchers found that genetic variants associated with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy were similarly distributed in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Mutations early in gestation appear to be responsible for damage to genes for both heart and brain development, according to research published in Science.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Patients whose risk for CVD was disclosed on the basis of genetic risk factors were more likely to lower their LDL than those whose risk was disclosed on the basis of conventional risk factors, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Younger people with a family history of premature cardiomyopathy death had as much as a 400-fold elevated risk for cardiomyopathy, according to data in a nationwide cohort study.

In patients with diabetes but no CHD, elevated levels of plasma apolipoprotein C-III were associated with higher trigylcerides and coronary artery calcification, according to new findings.

Genetics and genomics are two terms that are often incorrectly used interchangeably. Genetics is the study of single genes and their role in the way traits or conditions are passed from one generation to the next. Genomics is a term that describes the study of all parts of an organism’s genes.