According to an article in Medical News Today, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, determined that homocystinuria, which is an inherited metabolic disorder and caused by defective human cystathionine beta synthase gene, can be treated with vitamin B6, which we can get from various food sources. Consequently, the study "clarified the function of 84 DNA sequence variants in this gene, which will help physicians more effectively treat patients based on their particular genotypes" and also make it possible for "future studies examining other human genes that similarly cross over between humans and yeast". I found this article interesting because if we can treat an inherited disease by just eating right food, instead of taking different kinds of medicines every day or receiving a surgery, that will be much more convenient and wonderful.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Some Gene Mutations May Be Treatable With Diet
According to an article in Medical News Today, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, determined that homocystinuria, which is an inherited metabolic disorder and caused by defective human cystathionine beta synthase gene, can be treated with vitamin B6, which we can get from various food sources. Consequently, the study "clarified the function of 84 DNA sequence variants in this gene, which will help physicians more effectively treat patients based on their particular genotypes" and also make it possible for "future studies examining other human genes that similarly cross over between humans and yeast". I found this article interesting because if we can treat an inherited disease by just eating right food, instead of taking different kinds of medicines every day or receiving a surgery, that will be much more convenient and wonderful.
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I found this article interesting but also funny in the sense that Vitamin B6 which is found in food can help treat a metabolic disorder...but people who do eat food and maybe too much of particular kind of food end up getting diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, and the result for them is to take many other medicines...life would be easier if diseases or different disorders were solved by just eating healthy food
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