Sentences with phrase «dna than the human genome»

A research team led by András Simon at Karolinska Institutet have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, containing six times more DNA than the human genome.

Not exact matches

Research comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, published in Nature, found that there are more than 40 million differences between the two species» base pairs, which are the DNA building blocks.

«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.

In the last eight years, the field of ancient DNA research has expanded from just one ancient human genome to more than 1,300.

Mitochondria carry only a few genes, but they are so plentiful that it's often easier to find their DNA than the single full human genome in a cell's nucleus.

In less than 1 percent of all adults, the virus can also quietly slip its own DNA into the human genome — making it possible for mothers and fathers to pass HHV - 6 to their offspring if these insertions are present in their eggs or sperm.

The Emory team used high density microarrays to probe more than 900,000 sites across the human genome to detect structural variation, including deletions or duplications of DNA.

The work is the fruit of the Innovative Genomics Initiative, a joint effort between UC Berkeley and UCSF that aims to correct DNA mutations that underlie human disease using CRISPR - Cas9, a pioneering technology co-developed by scientists at UC Berkeley that has made genome editing easier and more efficient than ever before.

At 20 billion bases of DNA, the newly sequenced genome of the Norway spruce, a popular Christmas tree in Europe that can reach heights above 30 meters, is six times larger than the human genome.

Co-author Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has posted a note online explaining that incompatibility between two software packages used to compare Mota's genome with the reference human genome led the software program to simply drop certain DNA variants, with the result that all living Africans seemed to have inherited more «Eurasian» DNA than they actually did.

The researchers were searching for archaic DNA sequences in those human genomes at frequencies much higher than would be expected if those genes weren't doing people any good.

At first they could not determine more than six bases in the replica DNA, which did not provide enough unique addresses to identify individual genes in the human genome.

Xu applied the DNA microarray technique to screen more than 100,000 genes in the human genome to find the exact gene regulation pathway.

Faster ways to analyse DNA will speed up the human genome project, and will be essential if forensics labs are to handle more than a fraction of the cases that come their way.

The mouse genome is about 10 % smaller than the human genome, owing to a lower repetitive DNA content.

Two papers by Langmead and team, Ultrafast and memory - efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome and Fast gapped - read alignment with Bowtie 2, have been cited in more than 12,000 scientific studies since 2009.

The mouse genome is 14 percent smaller than the human genome and contains about 2.5 billion letters of DNA.

DNA sequencing costs have fallen more than 100-fold over the past decade, fueled in large part by tools, technologies and process improvements developed as part of the successful effort to sequence the human genome.

Here we report a public database of common variation in the human genome: more than one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for which accurate and complete genotypes have been obtained in 269 DNA samples from four populations, including ten 500 - kilobase regions in which essentially all information about common DNA variation has been extracted.

BETHESDA, Md., Thurs., Oct. 14, 2004 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded more than $ 38 million in grants to spur the development of innovative technologies designed to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.

More than 50 years have passed since Watson and Crick untangled the structure of DNA and five years have elapsed since scientists finished sequencing the entire human genome.

The sequence spans 2.3 billion DNA base - pairs and contains some 32,500 genes, or about one - third more than the human genome, according to the team that assembled it over the last four years.

The human genome contains an estimated 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA, roughly 25 times more than Arabidopsis.

Next - generation sequencing involves the application of glass micro-chip based methods and small - volume liquid handling (microfluidics) to sequence DNA more quickly and more cheaply than ever before, indeed 1000s times less costly than the technology used to sequence the first human genome just a few years ago.

This year's DNA Day (April 23rd) is generating more publicity than usual as it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the draft human genome sequence.