4. Introduction
DNA is a secuence of
nucleotides that expresses into
proteins that are necesary for
life.
Its correct structure determines
wheater an organism is viable or
not and the quality of life it’ll
have.
5. 1st news
July 17, 2015
Under the leadership of Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, Saunders
Family Chair and Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of Biomedical Training in the
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers at J.J. Peters Bronx
VA Medical Center
6. The study tries to bond type 2
diabetes and Alzaheimer’s disease
to determine weather numer one is
a probable cause of the condition
and how genetics could help
prevent it from happening in those
patients.
7. Type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic
disease in which there is a
high level of glucose in the
blood. Is the most common
form of diabetes.
The goal of treatment at
first is to lower your high
blood glucose levels. Long-
term goals are to prevent
problems from diabetes
8. Alzheimer’s disease
Is the most common
form of dementia among
older people. Dementia
is a brain disorder that
seriously affects a
person's ability to carry
out daily activities. It
begins slowly. Involving
first the parts of the brain
that control thought,
memory and language.
9. Personal opinion
There should be more of this studys in wich genes
that decode for specific sicknesses, like T2D and AD,
are related and determined weather they are
consecuences of one an other so we can start early
treatments and prevent this diseases from really
affecting our patients lifes.
10. 2nd news
July 17, 2015
Professor Andy Fraser and his team in the University of Toronto's Donnelly
Centre.
11. The fact that they found how
genetics influences the severity of
any genetic disease opens up a hole
new spectrum of ways to face any of
this genetic conditons.
12. Genetic disorders
A genetic disease is any disease that is caused by an
abnormality in an individual's genome, the person's
entire genetic makeup. The abnormality can range
from minuscule to major, from a discrete mutation in
a single base in the DNA of a single gene to a gross
chromosome abnormality involving the addition or
subtraction of an entire chromosome or set of
chromosomes.
14. Personal opinion
I found this study, personally, very important
specially because of the prediction of the
serverity of any of this genetic disorders.
To tell a patient that they will somehow suffer
from a disease no mather how severe it could
seem but not being able to tell them how much
it can affect them is giving them even more
reasons to undergo and this is something we
should try very hard to prevent.
16. This studys open doors for
new terapeutic targets
specially in the development
of concomitant treatments for
T2D and AD.
17. Whit this findings we could start making new terapeutic
alternatives that might, in a future, modificate the
genetic alterations that are causing the disease to
endure patient’s lifes.
18. If we could one day determine human genome in
every individual since the minute they are born
we’ll be predicting their possible diseases. This with
the point to start treating them in their specific
conditions and prevent them from happening or
from having complications.
