New Delhi: Researchers have traced around 750 genes potentially contributing to metabolism in humans by influencing amounts of 250 molecules , including lipids and amino acids, in blood -- findings could apply across ancestries and genders, they said.

The team, led by researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charite-University Medicine Berlin , Germany, and Queen Mary University in London, analysed genetic data of around 4.5 lakh individuals of European, African, and Asian ancestry from the UK Biobank .

Results published in the journal Nature Genetics show that the genes controlling the activity of metabolites were found to be similar across ancestries, and between men and women -- suggesting that the results could likely be applied to a wider population, the rese

See Full Page