Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
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Head of the Genetic Medicine Group at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and research coordinator for spinal muscular atrophy at the Neuromuscular Pathology Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona.
Head of the Psychiatric Genetics Unit
Even though we know it is important to protect ourselves from the sun to reduce the risk of skin cancer, the incidence of melanoma is on the rise in Spain. Why? How common and dangerous is this form of cancer? How can it be treated? In this article, we address key questions about this disease, drawing on expert sources.
A US research team has identified several genes that may be associated with a strict vegetarian diet. Some of these genes have "important roles in lipid metabolism and brain function", according to the paper, which suggests that these differences could explain the ability to subsist on a vegetarian diet in those who carry these genes. The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, used data from the UK Biobank to compare a group of more than 5,000 vegetarians with a group of more than 320,000 non-vegetarians.