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This week on the pod 🔊

🦟 Treating mosquitoes for malaria
🧬 The genetics that can lead to pregnancy loss

https://go.nature.com/4dLLUgp
These malaria drugs treat the mosquitoes — not the people
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 May 2025
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May 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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📰Rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 confer risk of bipolar disorder.

By Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Kari Stefansson and colleagues.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 confer risk of bipolar disorder - Nature Genetics
Analysis of whole-genome sequencing data from Iceland and the UK Biobank identifies an excess burden of rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disord...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Bi-allelic variants in BRF2 are associated with perinatal death and craniofacial anomalies #RareDisease #Genetics #morbidgene genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
April 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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FRS3 as a BMI-associated gene, encoding an adaptor protein known to act downstream of BDNF and TrkB, which regulate appetite, food intake, and energy expenditure through unknown signaling pathways @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #obesity #genetics
Missense variants in FRS3 affect body mass index in populations of diverse ancestries - Nature Communications
Understanding the underlying pathophysiology of obesity can help prevent this condition. Here, the authors perform a GWAS of BMI in diverse ancestries, finding four missense variants in FRS3 that affe...
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March 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM