New findings by Professor Eli Sprecher of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center show that a genetic mutation is responsible for this unusual condition.
Digging deeper, the team found that hongyacha has a mutation in the gene encoding the enzyme tea caffeine synthase, which promotes caffeine production in most tea plants.
"The golden color occurs due to a mutation which causes a low level of the pigment melanin.
They did genetic testing that showed I did not have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, which increase breast cancer risk.
The treatment improves the sight of patients suffering from a genetic mutation that destroys their ability to see.
Having a dog, on the other hand, offered a moderate amount of protection for those with and without the mutation.
hDEC2 and the super-sleeper mutation hDEC2, Some people naturally feel totally energised on just 4 hours of sleep each night.
In fact, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco discovered a gene mutation in people that predisposed them to needing about 20 per cent less sleep than the rest of us.
Sean Bohen, executive vice-president of global medicines development and chief medical officer at AstraZeneca, said: "This is an important step forward for Tagrisso and a significant opportunity to bring a breakthrough medicine to patients with non-small cell lung cancer in China, where epidermal growth factor receptor mutation rates are some of the highest in the world.
" "Both patients have used oseltamivir phosphate before, so it is not known whether the drug resistance is caused by previous use of the dug or by a mutation of the virus," He Jianfeng, chief expert in infectious disease at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said.
The researchers have also lessen the effects of a mutation which can cause Alzheimer's.
Scientists haven't found the exact reason for the color change to the panda's fur, but some scholars think it might have something to do with a genetic mutation.
As we discovered earlier this week, a mutation in a gene called DEC2 might allow some people to sleep consistently for only four hours a night with no adverse physical effects….
A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene.
Mutation of oneself to better fit into a relationship is a necessary sacrifice.
All cancer has an element of chance - a roll of the dice that decides whether your DNA acquires a mutation that leads to cancer.
Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honour into their family, are commonly more worthy, than most that succeed: so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by mutation.
Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation.