In fact, those with glaucoma are 38 percent more likely to have had a thyroid condition at some point in their life, said the study authors, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

该研究的作者(来自伯明翰的阿拉巴马大学)说，实际上，青光眼患者在其一生中发生甲状腺问题的可能性要比常人增加38%。

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Dr Martin Young, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said: 'The first meal you have appears to programme your metabolism for the rest of the day.

伯明翰阿拉巴马大学的马丁.杨博士表示：“我们的第一顿饭似乎可以调节一天的新陈代谢。”

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But geneticists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham [Lynn Holt et al.] note that family gatherings are a great time to learn more about your family's health issues.

但是来自伯明翰市阿拉巴马大学的遗传学家[lynn Holt et al .]却注意到，家庭聚会是一个了解家庭健康状况的良机。

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"Family history remains one of the most important predictors of an event for an individual, " says Donna Arnett, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president-elect of the American Heart Association.

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In 1996 David Bedwell, a microbiologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, found that an antibiotic, gentamicin, could make the body's gene-reading software skip past the misplaced period in the gene sentence and keep on reading.

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