Sentences with phrase «gene loss tends»

Gene loss tends to happen when bacteria settle into a comfortable environment and no longer need certain functions, von Dohlen says, and it is what researchers think happened to organelles.

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For example, it appears that only recent hg19 DNA gains tend to associate with DNA losses across multiple time - periods, which is consistent with recent SINE activity in human evolution [74] following insertion into gene - rich regions that are prone to DNA loss.

Although DNA gain and loss in human occurred mostly in different regions, they both tended to impact on the same biological processes, while in mouse DNA loss was enriched for developmental genes and DNA gain did not associate with any particular biological process.

Additionally, we found that DNA loss events tended to be smaller than DNA gain events suggesting that they were able to accumulate in gene - rich open chromatin regions due to their reduced capacity to interrupt gene regulatory architecture.