Cut out the ears can know what the "cancer"

Free cut out ears, look at his ear wax, is wet or dry dust grey.

Don't underestimate these humble ear wax, which however hidden clue! researchers recently discovered gene associated with wax, and the discovery of these genes may have a breast cancer prevalence.

Control of gene is located on the ear wax, paragraph 16 on chromosome, exact location unknown.

Ear wax can be divided into two forms, wet-type or drying, wax and soft degrees and external ear is closely related to the secretion glands, adulterated with shedding of ear wax surface and fuzz. Ear wax forms render of the moist sepia and drying is gray and fragile. Japan Nagasaki University School of medicine study with their colleagues Norio Niikawa found that Japan wax is moist-like a woman than dry woman's chance of breast cancer. This inference wax gene or genes affect the chances of breast cancer.

Researchers from track 8 wax forms to locate this gene.

They call on the family to do sampling, if the form is not enough clear ear wax, wet wipes, then take a look. Like Mendel found pea shape, wax softness in line with the traditional law of Mendelian genetics, moist wax the feature clearly. "This is an interesting story," University of California at Los Angeles, by Nicholas said. Ear wax type frequency as the human race that has great differences, for Europeans and Africans, the majority of ear wax wet, Asians are dry Earwax in the majority.

Ear wax formation and breast secretion and a gland secretion called top (apocrine gland).

So the researchers speculate in specific populations, most likely there is a simultaneous control of wax formation and breast cancer gene. If this is true, but a great discovery! wax so as to assess the probability of breast cancer, the size of the inspection method is very simple.

(Practice editing: plum and apricot)