Expert Help for Patients at Risk of Kidney Cancer
UNC’s von Hippel-Lindau Comprehensive Clinical Care Center treats familial syndromes with predispositions of kidney cancer.
Tag: Genetics
For anorexia nervosa, researchers implicate genetic locus on chromo...
UNC researchers led the most powerful genomic study of anorexia nervosa conducted to date to identify the common roots anorexia shares with psychiatric and metabolic traits. Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED, was the study's lead investigator.
Are you ready to explore baby’s genome?
UNC clinical geneticists are part of a national consortium of researchers studying the ins and outs of genome sequencing for newborn health screenings and beyond.
Babies, Children's Health, Genetics, Pediatric Medicine, Research
UNC research challenges Darwin, shows how a gene cheats Mendel’s la...
Led by UNC School of Medicine’s Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD, a team of geneticists found how the gene R2d2 distorts cell division across generations to affect fertility.
Scientists elucidate genetic underpinnings of congenital heart disease
Led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine, the five-year multi-lab effort lays the groundwork for developing treatments.
Study finds no link between subcortical brain volumes and genetic r...
Proof-of-concept study provides roadmap for future research into possible associations between brain volume measures and known genetic risk factors.
Team Science for Turner Syndrome
With seed money from the NC TraCS Institute at UNC and a Translational Team Science Award from the UNC School of Medicine, UNC collaborators uncovered an epigenetic mechanism that could be the cause of painful chronic ear infections that plague people with chromosomal and genetic conditions.
UNC Lineberger to partner in $12 million effort to find treatments ...
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and eight other leading cancer research institutions have won a five-year, $12 million grant to try to find treatments for a group of cancers linked to mutations in the NF1 gene.
A new era for genetic interpretation
UNC Lineberger researchers are collaborating through the ClinGen consortium to pinpoint disease-causing genetic variants.