Monthly Archives: November 2019

[143] Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are both known to be heritable, but the details of the genes involved remain unclear. Researchers now report the analysis of exome sequences of approximately 8,000 children with ASD and/or ADHD and 5,000 controls. The researchers discovered that the similarities between the two diagnoses can be linked to changes in the same genes. The new study is the largest study to date of rare mutations in the genome of people…..

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[142] Greater the Air Pollution, Higher the Risk of Glaucoma November 26, 2019 Living in a more polluted area is associated with a greater likelihood of having glaucoma, according to a new University College London (UCL) study (“The Relationship Between Ambient Atmospheric Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) and Glaucoma in a Large Community Cohort”) that appears in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. People in neighborhoods with higher amounts of fine particulate matter pollution were at least 6% more likely to report having glaucoma…..

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