The University of Utah has announced the winners of the fifth annual Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award. The award recognizes faculty who create products and initiatives with potential to change...
A team of researchers at Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has discovered that a more complete, extended family history helps when determining a man's risk for prostate cancer.
The cause of most pituitary tumors remains unknown, although a genetic contribution is recognized for some. The prevalence of pituitary tumors in the general population is high. Analyzing the Utah...
People who develop tumors in their pituitary gland have a significantly higher risk for other, unrelated types of cancer—and so do their relatives, a new study using records from the...
A novel analysis of a computerized population-based resource linking genealogy and cancer data was used to test the hypothesis of a role of the Y chromosome in prostate cancer predisposition.
Geneticist Dr. Lisa Cannon-Albright explains how knowing your genealogy can give you a head start in understanding your risk for developing disease. She also describes her work building a genealogy...
