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A common gene variant conferring elevated risk of (type 2 diabetes) has been earnestly sought by the genetics community for many years.

Kari Stefansson
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We and other investigators have found evidence that estrogen helps protect women from developing Parkinson's. So, a gene variant that would decrease estrogen production or activity would put those women at greater risk for the disease.

Walter Rocca
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The region of DNA identified in our study showed evidence of replication in four independent series of experiments. I haven't seen a putative risk factor show such consistent results since the e4 variant of the APOE gene was identified as a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease more than 10 years ago.

Alison M. Goate
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Test results showed it was not the variant form of CJD.

Tom Shanahan
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African Americans with the variant come very close to facing certainty of having a heart attack.

Kari Stefansson
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Generally, 85 percent of the tests come back as the sporadic, or naturally occurring form, 14 percent come back as the familial form that is passed down through generations and less than 1 percent come back as the variant form. There's never been a variant case acquired in the United States.

Tom Shanahan
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There are things that lead you to believe this is not variant CJD.

Cheryle Becker
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We did not see a widespread or fast spread of this in the first 24 hours. Over the last 24 hours, we've see variance, where other hackers will take the work and try to unleash a variant of the worm. So the worm continues to take on different forms.

Debby Fry Wilson
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We are cautiously optimistic that the impact of the infection stage of this particular variant of the Code Red worm ... has been minimized.

Ron Dick
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We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

Joshua Schachter
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Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that have this variant form, they can tolerate higher concentrations of this bitter compound without it tasting nasty to them.

Alison M. Goate
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The reason I released the [proof of concept] is so that other researchers like myself can check out the bug, and maybe there is possibly a variant of this flaw that can be exploited.

Tom Ferris
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It's funny that on a little rock in the North Atlantic we found a gene variant that has so much impact on the risk of heart disease in a totally different part of the world. We may look a little bit different on the surface but we are all part of the same family.

Kari Stefansson
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African-Americans who have this variant are almost certain to develop heart attacks. If you remove this gene variant from the population you would remove almost 20 percent of heart attacks in Africans-Americans.

Kari Stefansson
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There are many other examples. West Nile virus spread from insects to humans; the avian flu we are now so worried about comes from birds. Diseases also jump to domesticated animals such as cows - the human variant of 'mad cow disease', from rodents, and from many different species.

Stanley Lemon
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I think the better bet is that we went into a geographical area that has a variant of these germs, that we're not familiar with, that we don't have any inherited immunity to.

Edward Hyman
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