Sentences with phrase «a gene variant»

To illustrate how it works in practice, Koenig offers the example of a professional hockey player whose profile shows that he has gene variants found in people who respond rapidly to lactic - acid threshold training.

Athletigen's process involves taking a sample of an athlete's saliva and subjecting it to genotyping analysis to search for 850,000 different gene variants that may play a role in the formation of athletic traits.

«Those carrying the target gene variant slept, on average, for five hours, which was one hour shorter than their twins without the gene.

When the twins were given cognitive tests after sleep deprivation, those with the gene variant did better, making 40 % fewer errors.

Mostly they are optimists, excited by the latest findings: the newly isolated gene variant that may help explain schizophrenia, the new telescopic images that reveal the violent births of distant....

What the figure shows is that in small populations, genetic diversity is rapidly lost, that is, gene variants (i.e. alleles) become «fixed.»

For those who have MTHFR gene variants, supplemental folic acid has not been found to reduce the risk of miscarriage.

Since all people have two copies of every gene, combinations of the TAS2R8 gene variants determine whether someone tastes bitter foods intensely.

FADS1 FADS2 gene variants modify the association between fish intake and the docosahexaenoic acid proportions in human milk

Health matters: A recent study found that women with good nutrition are more likely to have babies born with a cancer - suppressing gene variant

For their experiments, the researchers created hybrids of two genetically distinct mouse strains with a fully sequenced genome, allowing gene variants to be clearly assigned to the maternal or paternal allele.

But some people have gene variants that lead to low enzyme levels.

Researchers have assumed that mothers are more likely to pass on autism - promoting gene variants.

«Gene variant activity is surprisingly variable between tissues.»

Scientists added a gene variant to make them glow and now that trait is passed along to all their offspring.

Three of the darker - skin gene variants appear to have evolved from variants linked with less pigment.

From the sequence data, they found gene variants indicating that the man had dark skin and eyes.

Fast population growth has littered our genomes with five times as many rare gene variants as would be expected.

To identify gene variants associated with musical aptitude, Irma Järvelä at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues analysed the genomes of 767 people assessed for their ability to detect small differences between the pitch and duration of a sound, and musical pattern.

Of these, 43 people carried at least one copy of the gene variant.

In this genome - wide association study, researchers found gene variants mapping to five loci associated with intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (IEAA) and gene variants in three loci associated with extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration.

But evolution hasn't had enough time to weed out the dangerous ones: gene variants that might make us prone to illness, or simply less likely to survive.

These SCARB1 gene variant studies aren't the only ones to challenge the long - held belief that increasing HDL was the key to reducing heart disease risk.

A large - scale genetic study published in The Lancet in 2012 found no relationship between gene variants that increased HDL and the likelihood of heart attack (though this research did not evaluate the SCARB1 variants).

People with the gene variant also had 30 per cent lower levels of insulin when fasting — a sign of slower ageing.

They also worked out which of 221 dead relatives would have carried the gene variant, and analysed how long each of these lived.

A gene variant that arose decades ago in an Amish group seems to be enough to make people live ten years longer, as well as making them less likely to develop diabetes.

Joshua Akey of the University of Washington recently explored the average age of our species's gene variants, finding that most are very young.

Their landmark findings will open the door to identify gene variants controlling skin microbiota and to define their link to various diseases such as skin inflammatory disorders.

The study, which is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, describes a possible mechanism for how the gene variant produces clinical symptoms by affecting levels of specific proteins in the brain.

In 2010, they discovered a common gene variant that predicts efficacy of the common anti-platelet medication, clopidogrel (Plavix ®).

Genes also play a role in menopause, and two research teams have identified several gene variants associated with advancing or delaying menopause by as much as two years.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, and the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University in Sweden have identified a gene variant linked to psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment in people with bipolar disorder.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

MUSICAL ability is linked to gene variants that help control social bonding.

«Machine learning finds tumor gene variants and sensitivity to drugs in The Cancer Genome Atlas.»

A typical human exome has dozens of these loss - of - function gene variants.

However, the gene variants identified thus far explain only about five percent of the familial predisposition.

They also gave back thousands of ancient African gene variants that Eurasians had lost when their ancestors swept out of Africa in small bands, perhaps 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.

Lupski was comparing genes in people with and without the disease in the hope of finding a gene variant unique to the condition.

The IGF1 protein is crucial for the growth of mammals, including mice and humans, so Ostrander's group and other collaborators began collecting DNA from additional breeds to see if they also shared the same gene variant.

Humans are still evolving and producing new gene variants, and one of them may give protection against becoming addicted to alcohol - by stopping us drinking altogether

The gene variant linked to graying is found only in people with European ancestry, and it has previously been associated with light hair colors.

Of the darker - skin gene variants, three appear to have evolved from less pigmented variants.

On the other hand, gene variants that confer a benefit to males are more likely to accumulate on the X chromosome than on a nonsex chromosome because they will always be expressed on a male's single X chromosome.

«So a [gene variant] that conferred risk to asthma confers protection against [worm infection].»

It comes out in support of a ruling in March by a lower court that the patents, owned by biotech firm Myriad Genetics, should be revoked because they cover gene variants identical to ones that can be found naturally in women.

We did not find any evidence for a so - called «positive selection» but instead found that many gene variants linked to schizophrenia reside in regions of the genome in which natural selection is not very effective in the first place.

An estimated 40 percent of the population has the primary gene variant associated with celiac disease, but only 1 percent of people with these genes go on to develop intestinal inflammation and damage — the hallmarks of the disease — after ingesting gluten.

Other gene variants — like mutations in FTO or the gene for leptin, an energy - balancing hormone — had been linked to overeating or fat cell type.