Sentences with phrase «gene effect takes»

Not exact matches

Genetic variation can take the form of common base changes (polymorphisms) that alter gene function or rare base changes (mutations) that often have highly deleterious effects.

Once there, it may activate DNA - destroying enzymes, in effect taking molecular scissors to the strands of genes, snipping them to bits.

They found that people with the gene variant had the highest risk of side effects when they were given a statin called simvastatin, but this risk was much lower when they took pravastatin.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

One person takes a drug and has a set of side effects, all of which could involve different genes.

But it has not been clear until now that the effects of these particular gene variations can vary by race in patients taking clopidogrel after a heart attack.

The study further suggests that NSAIDs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen have a particularly advantageous effect when taken after diagnosis by colorectal, or CRC, patients without tumor mutation in the KRAS gene (KRAS wild - type tumors): The study shows that NSAID use by this group is associated with a survival benefit of 40 percent.

These assessments, which take into account the gene drive's characteristics, effects on humans and the environment, and local values and governance, are a key tool for determining a gene drive's impacts.

We find that many genes change expression over relatively short PMIs in a tissue - specific manner, but this potentially confounding effect in a biological analysis can be minimized by taking into account appropriate covariates.

The researchers were able to predict the direction of this effect with high accuracy, based on the sequences of bacteria present and the resistance genes they carried in samples taken before treatment.

Is the strange and beautiful Dr Carijona friend or foe?After a frantic breakout, Kiel Helsteen tears over the Andes and through the rain forest, desperate to uncover the truth, tell the world and save his friends.Pursued by the inventors and their ruthless henchmen, can he sabotage their work before the effects of the Prestin gene take hold?

Downward trends in popular breeds take several years to affect the gene pool, but big year to year changes in rare breeds can have a devastating effect.

The sculptures and photographs by Elaine Bradford and the works on paper by Megan Greene take Darwin's theory of phenotype (or the visible characteristics of an animal that result from the combined effects of the genes and the environment) even further by incorporating human fashion and adornment as a means for a species to adapt to its surroundings.

Writing in 1970, Gene Youngblood advocated that artists take up the technologies of the moment — special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments, and holography — to expand the consciousness of their publics.