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June 22, 2007

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-	WHI Study of Younger Postmenopausal Women Links Estrogen Therapy to Less Plaque in Arteries Experts Caution that Heart Disease Effects Remain Unclear
-	Researchers Discover Gene For Rare Skin Disorder The gene known as PORCN may account for most cases of Goltz syndrome, a rare skin disorder that can also affect bone and eye development.
-	Mix of Disease Processes at Work in Brains of Most People with Dementia Combination of Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral infarcts (strokes) is the most common mix of pathologies in the brains of people with dementia.
-	Tumor-Associated Blood Vessels Have Genes Expressed at High Levels in Mice and Humans Researchers have uncovered a set of genes, including endothelial cell surface CD276, that are turned on, or expressed, at high levels only in the blood vessels that feed tumors in mice and humans.