Testing for cancer may soon be as simple as a pinprick. Researchers in the United Kingdom say they are developing a universal blood test to detect cancer. So far, the team from the University of Bradford has tested their lymphocyte genome sensitivity test on patients with melanoma, lung cancer and colon cancer.esting for cancer may soon be as simple as a pinprick. Researchers in the United Kingdom say they are developing a universal blood test to detect cancer. So far, the team from the University of Bradford has tested their lymphocyte genome sensitivity test on patients with melanoma, lung cancer and colon cancer.
Aicardi syndrome is a rare neurologic disorder first described by the French neurologist, Dr. Jean Aicardi, in 1965. It occurs almost exclusively in females (46,XX), however, it can also occur in males with Klinfelter Syndrome (47,XXY). A handful of reports in the literature exist of Aicardi syndrome in a normal male. Some of these reports have been disputed, and it is possible that these cases are caused by mosaic mutations of the Aicardi syndrome gene(s).
Huntington disease-caused by mutations in the HTT gene. The inherited mutation that causes Huntington disease is known as a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion. This mutation increases the size of the CAG segment in the HTT gene. People with Huntington disease have 36 to more than 120 CAG repeats.