Vitamin D found to influence over 200 genes, highlighting links to disease
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 05:28
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...