Your Genes Could Be the Promoter of Vitamin D Deficiency: Study Shows

The Vitamin D deficiency is a very common problem nowadays and almost everyone knows that this problem is caused by inadequate exposure to right kind of sunlight or some kind of liver/kidney disorders but the modern science has shown some new and different results regarding this deficiency.

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According to new study the genetics could help us in determining a person’s risks of getting vitamin deficiency.

The overall analysis on this issue was carried by a team of researchers who focused on group of people who were specifically the white men and women of European descendant.The findings of the team were revealed online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of The Lancet. The researchers actually conducted quite a high tech genetic analysis of the participants and thus locate some specific points on their genome that were linked to the Vitamin D deficiency.

According to lead author of study Timothy Spector of King’s College, London, this genetic analysis “improve our understanding of vitamin D regulation and could assist identification of a subgroup of the white population who are most at risk of vitamin D insufficiency and who may need extra levels of supplementation”.

Though quite clear results are obtained after this research still there are some places left and the researchers believe that future work is required in this regard.