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Genes Showing How Fast You Age Found According to a group of British researchers, the genes that show just how much people are exposed to illnesses when they become old have been identified. Experts from the University of Leicester, and Kings College London, say that the finding could be of significant importance for discovering people at risk of age-re... 8 February 2010 07:21 GMT Genetic Fluke Increases Ovarian Cancer Risk by 40 Percent An international scientific effort, led by experts in the United Kingdom, has uncovered that women carrying two copies of a single, malfunctioning gene are at increased risk of developing ovary cancer at some point in their life. In a paper published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Genetics, they... 3 August 2009 17:01 GMT