Showing posts with label twins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twins. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
UK, China Research Teams Partner on $31M Epigenetics Study | GenomeWeb Daily News | GenomeWeb
"The study will harness King's College London's Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology department and will involve 5,000 twins. The project initially will focus on obesity, diabetes, allergies, heart disease, osteoporosis, and longevity.
"Finding the crucial differences between twins will lead us to the key genes that are being turned on and off, and so to the cause of disease, with great potential to find key targets for drug treatments," Tim Spector, director of TwinsUK and leader of the Epitwin project, said in a statement."
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