Sentences with phrase «genomes accumulate mutations»

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On average, every duplication of the human genome includes 100 new errors, so all that reproducing gave our DNA many opportunities to accumulate mutations.

While those viruses reproduced and spread from host to host, their genomes accumulated a pattern of mutations that told a story.

To identify the accumulated mutations that restored viral fitness, the researchers sequenced the viral RNA using a supersensitive method called PrimerID sequencing, which enables tracking of all individual viral genomes so that any relevant mutations can be spotted.

The scientists also found eight strains of M. leprae whose genomes harbored an incredibly large number of random mutations, accumulated over a period of a few years or perhaps decades.

The molecular clock approach is based on the principle that mutations accumulate in the genomes of all organisms over the course of time.

Accumulated mutations in the virus genomes reveal that the outbreak began well before the medics arrived in the country.

Most spontaneous mutations do neither harm nor good but simply accumulate in the genome, one at a time, as they are passed from one generation to the next.

In the case of horse domestication, it is likely that the demographic collapse within the last 2,000 years reduced the efficacy of negative selection to purge out deleterious mutations, which could then accumulate in the horse genome.

Domestication thus generally comes at a cost, as deleterious mutations can accumulate in the genome.

This evolution is due to the ability of viruses to accumulate new mutations in their genome.

The mutations that our genomes have accumulated over the millennia aren't just junk, they realized.

Furthermore, organisms exposed to a repeated, specific nutritional stress may accumulate distinct mutations over long periods, potentially solving some previously unexplained patterns of genome architecture over time.

A large number of harmful mutations have accumulated in the genomes of humans and chimpanzees, according to a new study.

«The repair mechanism ensures that mutations do not accumulate in the genome, particularly in exons,» explains Joan Frigola, PhD student and first author of the article together with postdoc Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan.

By obtaining the entire mitochondrial genome sequences from cells of ME / CFS patients and an age - matched cohort, it is possible to determine whether cases have accumulated more somatic mutations in mitochondrial DNA than expected.

Well, probably, the one whose genome is closer to the original, and therefore accumulated fewer mutations.

A negative correlation is expected if slightly deleterious mutations, and possibly also genes that are less constrained, accumulate in regions of the genome with low recombination frequency because of the reduced efficiency of natural selection.

Functional genomic elements, for example, are expected to be found at higher density in genome regions with a high recombination rate where fewer slightly deleterious mutations accumulate than in areas of low recombination [13].

Aging cells and tissues accumulate point mutations and genomic rearrangements, consistent with a failing ability to defend their genomes against DNA damage.