Vitamin D found to influence over 200 genes, highlighting links to disease

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

The extent to which vitamin D deficiency may increase susceptibility to a wide range of diseases is dramatically highlighted in research published today. Scientists have mapped the points at which vitamin D interacts with our DNA - and identified over two hundred genes that it directly influences. The results are published today in the journal Genome Research.

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