Sentence examples for rarer disease from inspiring English sources

The same genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are involved in ovarian cancer, and there the link is stronger, accounting for perhaps 8percentt of ovarian cancer over all, but it is a much rarer disease".

Through the latter studies, the researchers found a gene through biomarker studies that led them to a therapeutic treatment for patients with an even rarer disease.

However, he expressed reservations about the general push to link genes to diseases at the ASHG meeting, many talks discussed efforts to sequence part or all of peoples' genomes to uncover rarer disease genes than SNP studies can find.

Genzyme, of Cambridge, Mass., had been charging $150,000 a year for a treatment for a far rarer disease than PAH (Gaucher's disease), but large drug companies still saw rare diseases as small opportunities.

Juvenile inflammatory arthritis (JIA) is a rarer disease than RA.

Intriguingly, the rarer disease associated allele, BE5.2(C), acted as a significantly stronger repressor of BP4 activity than the more common BE5.2(T) allele.

Rarer diseases that occur include TB, plague and cholera.

After all, many rarer diseases were already known to be genetic.

Because mass-market drugs to treat millions of patients typically require heavy investments in manufacturing and marketing, Bristol-Myers decided to develop a specialization in more expensive drugs that treat rarer diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's disease and hepatitis C.

Particularly at risk is work on rarer diseases, such as childhood cancers, because the UK simply does not have the number of patients, nor the funding to organise and run effective trials on its own.

Peritonitis (serositis) of small bowel loops may occur in common diseases causing acute abdominal pain (e.g. appendicitis), in post-surgical patients and in rarer diseases such as familial Mediterranean fever.