Deepro Banerjee
Graduate Student
News Articles Featuring Deepro Banerjee
Oct 31, 2025
Massive cross-ancestry study explains why obesity risks differ around the world
By analyzing genetic data from more than 800,000 individuals across six ancestries, researchers have identified previously unknown obesity genes, opening new avenues for global, ancestry-informed treatments.
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Oct 30, 2025
Genes associated with obesity shared across ancestries, researchers find
A new study from Penn State involving nearly 850,000 adults across six continental ancestries has identified 13 genes linked to obesity, including five never before connected to the condition. The findings provide new insight into how genetics influence obesity and related diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
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Oct 07, 2025
Background genetic variants influence clinical features in complex disorders
New study reveals how the complex interplay of genetic background can lead to different clinical presentations in individuals that share a primary genetic variant.
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Dec 16, 2024
Brain regions that relieve effects of chronic stress in mice differ based on sex
In two new studies, researchers made mice resilient to stress by activating neurons in different brain regions and found that the changes involved are highly sex-specific
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Feb 07, 2024
Predicting neurodevelopmental disease in children from parent’s traits
Predicting the trajectory of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders like autism or schizophrenia is difficult because they can be influenced by many different genetic and environmental factors
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