The study was the largest ancestry-stratified, genetic estimation of the heritability of diabetic retinopathy conducted to date and included an unprecedented number of individuals of non-Hispanic African ancestry — more than 46,000.

This new entry to the field works in the background to provide real-time risk assessments, with no manual inputs from health care providers required.

The authors hope the report will provide insight on the importance of education, screening and awareness to all health care providers.

The discovery could point to novel strategies for treating food poisoning and other types of gastroenteritis.

The Vanderbilt study used RNA-sequencing data generated in multiple normal tissues, along with matched genotype data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project as well as large-scale genomic data for cancers of the breast, ovary, prostate, colorectum, lung and pancreas.

Reports from 193 hospitals were analyzed. It turns out that surgeons draw the most complaints.

The study suggests the adjustment for race in spirometry resulted in an underreporting — and thus possibly undertreatment — of chronic lung diseases, including asthma and cystic fibrosis, in Black children.