Using the data, the researchers estimated people's likelihood of getting a second disease.
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
MIP-1a was also necessary for the second phase of the disease, which is associated with chronic allergy.
Schistosomiasis is the second most common parasitic disease in the world after malaria - with 90% of cases in Africa.
He said the disease was the second-leading cause of death for African-Americans between the ages 25 and 44.
This can include second cancers, coronary artery disease, heart failure, lung problems and endocrine disorders (growth function and slow or delayed sexual development).
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Some women without the BRCA mutations who are diagnosed with cancer in one breast decide to have both removed even though data suggest their risk of getting the disease in their second breast is low.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death by disease in the U.S., surpassed only by heart disease.
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During the course of conducting his study, Lyon found out about a second family with exactly the same disease, caused by the same mutation.
In the tropical forests of the island, just south of the equator, 37, 000 Japanese troops died from disease and starvation during the second world war.
The UAE has the world's second-highest incidence of this debilitating disease.
Second, cancer is a very complex disease to communicate about.
But that lost second can't be blamed on his disease: During the run, he was pushing his 6-year-old daughter, Kiana, in a stroller.
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Heart disease and trauma rank first and second as the two most expensive conditions in terms of total national health care spending while cancer remains the most expensive on a per-person cost basis.
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In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, accidental drowning is the second-leading cause of death for children from 1-14.
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, after heart disease.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists drowning as the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the fifth leading cause of death for Americans of all ages.
She now teaches creative writing and has written a book - Second Chances: true stories of living with Addison's disease.
Known as brain infarcts, they're involved in vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer's disease.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says West Virginia has the second-highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation.
The findings come as a second study suggests that depression could be an early sign of the disease.
The second group were injected with a chemical to cause Parkinson's disease.
Harper says that Amgen is aware of the mediocre results for IGF1 drugs elsewhere, but decided to go ahead in pancreatic cancer because of strong results it got in second stage trials, where its drug delayed the progression of the disease by about four months.
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On the second of two trips to Congo, he fell sick with a tropical disease and died.
But despite prostate cancer being the second leading cause of deaths among men, with a life lost to the disease every six minutes, it is a taboo subject for many men, who can feel too embarrassed to mention the condition.
While male and female mortality rates from cerebrovascular disease, such as strokes, have dropped significantly they have been the second highest in Western Europe for the last 55 years, with only Portugal worse.
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French doctors estimated the disease's incubation period to be from 9 to 12 days for the second case, longer than the 7 to 10 days previously reported by others.
It is clear from over 40 years of research on heart disease that the first alternative has a strong effect, whereas data for the second alternative are much weaker.
According to Cancer Research UK some 41, 000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year, but 10, 700 will die of the disease, making it the fourth most common cause of cancer death - and second only to lung cancer in men.
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