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.