Professor Stephen O'Rahilly, at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, said: "Our work suggests that, in some cases, a single gene can be responsible for obesity, and that it is a much more common problem than anyone has realised.
Pedersen, PhD, Professor of Regenerative Medicine at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, "We look forward to conducting molecular and genetic assessment of imprinted gene expression and DNA methylation on these unique cells.
Its members include The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Princess Margaret Hospital and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, both with The University of Toronto; Cancer Research UK (CRUK) funded scientists at the London Research Institute and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR); Fox Chase Cancer Center; The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ); Harvard Medical School; UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI); The Scottish Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics based at the University of Edinburgh Medical School (GTI); The University of Cambridge scientists at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and MRC Cancer Cell Unit; The University of Texas M.
Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Cambridge scientists at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and MRC Cancer Cell Unit and the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
announced today that it has signed a commercial agreement with the University of Cambridge (UK) to provide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping services on a sample collection provided by the University's Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), which houses the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Wellcome Trust funded Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory (JDRF/WT DIL).