Sentences with phrase «genetic studies to date»

Genetic studies to date have focused the search on human genes within our genome.

Chris Funk, associate professor in the College of Natural Sciences» Department of Biology, led the research team that conducted the largest and most in - depth genetic study to date of California Channel Island foxes.

Not exact matches

In October, a separate study of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of the remains of two Alaskan children, dated to 11,500 years ago, revealed that one child had a rare genetic signature found on the southern edge of Siberia.

To date, the lack of basic genetic data has severely hampered studies of camel genetics.

The team studied genetic data from over 1200 cholera samples, some dating back to the 1950s.

The study, published this week in Science, is the first to simultaneously identify, date and characterise genetic mixing between populations.

The project is led by the Cross-Disorder Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and is the largest genetic study of psychiatric illness to date.

And the largest genetic study of autistic children and their parents to date has located a host of new variations in autistic individuals.

In the second study, another of Worobey's graduate students, Marlea Gemmel, analyzed HIV - 1 genetic material obtained from lymph tissue collected in 1960 from the University of Kinshasa pathology department in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — only the second HIV sequence predating 1976 deciphered to date.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

«For anorexia nervosa, researchers implicate genetic locus on chromosome 12: Powerful genomic study of anorexia nervosa conducted to date to identify the common roots anorexia shares with psychiatric, metabolic traits.»

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Oncogene used next - generation sequencing technologies to perform the most detailed DNA - based analysis to date of 25 commonly used bladder cancer cell lines, allowing researchers to match patient tumors with their closest genetic cell line match, and demonstrated genetic alterations that may make cells more or less sensitive to common therapies.

In his editorial, Maris credits the new study as «the most comprehensive blueprint to date of genetic childhood - cancer predisposition,» adding that the full complexity of how children develop cancer remains to be investigated.

November 15, 2006 Genetic study of Neanderthal DNA reveals early split between humans and Neanderthals In the most thorough study to date of the Neanderthal genome, scientists suggest an early human - Neanderthal split.

«Our findings provide the most inclusive analysis of giraffe relationships to date and show that their genetic complexity has been underestimated, highlighting the need for greater conservation efforts for the world's tallest mammal,» the researchers said in the study.

In a paper published in Nature in September 2013, we describe results of the largest study to date integrating RNA and genome sequencing data from multiple human populations, and provide a comprehensive map of how genetic variation affects the transcriptome.

Led by Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., Hardis Chair of the Genomic Medicine Institute and Director of its Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare of Cleveland Clinic, the study — the largest clinical study to date on the identification of PTEN — involved 3,042 participants, including both adults and children.

deCODE MI ™ The deCODE MI ™ test detects two SNPs located on chromosome 9p21, discovered by deCODE and which various genome - wide association studies have confirmed as the highest impact genetic risk factor for heart attack and coronary artery disease identified to date.

«This is new, as previous studies had generally found the dates of origination to be older and not clustered in time — the current study uses a much bigger genetic data set than any of the earlier ones.»

The deCODE study is the largest population genetic study ever carried out in patients with essential hypertension — high blood pressure without a known secondary cause — and reports the strongest genome - wide linkage of any research on this condition to date.

Ward et al. highlight results from molecular and preclinical studies, discuss clinical trial results to date, describe ongoing investigations, and assess novel approaches for the enhancement of MSC based cardiac regeneration, such as genetic modification.

Further, we show that the remarkable diversity of form in the dog, in contrast to some other species studied to date, appears to have a simple genetic basis dominated by genes of major effect.

Four twin studies on child - mother attachment security using behavioural genetic modelling have been published to date.