Wistar discoveries have led to the development of vaccines for rabies, rubella, and rotavirus,
the identification of genes associated with different types of cancer, the development of monoclonal antibodies, and other significant research technologies and tools.
Identification of genes associated with local aggressiveness and metastatic behavior in soft tissue tumors.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, working on
identification of genes associated with human spinal muscular atrophy.
Not exact matches
But it can also make
identification of the size -
associated genes difficult.
«The
identification and initial validation
of a highly accurate 5 -
gene pancreatic cancer biomarker panel that can discriminate late and early stages
of pancreatic cancer from normal pancreas and benign pancreatic lesions could facilitate early diagnosis
of pancreatic cancer,» said co-senior author Roya Khosravi - Far, PhD,
Associate Professor
of Pathology at BIDMC.
The enrichment factor described how frequently cancer
associated genes were identified compared to the frequency
of identification that one could expect by pure chance.
The study results challenge the current paradigm
of microarray data analysis and suggest that the new method may improve
identification of cancer -
associated genes.
Frequently, the term cloning is misleadingly used to refer to the
identification of the chromosomal location
of a
gene associated with a particular phenotype
of interest.
GOMiner — To provide additional statistical stringency to the
identification of potential targets, we then analyzed the data sets generated by the SAM - RS analysis
of the microarray data for hypoxia -
associated coregulation
of multiple, functionally related
genes.
He has made important contributions to the understanding
of the molecular basis
of retinal and eye development, and to the
identification of genes and processes
associated with inherited retinal degenerations.
Conclusions: The
identification of gene expression alterations as a function
of hypoxia and recovery from hypoxia is important to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying retinal dysfunction
associated with a variety
of diseases.
«If we can establish a link between abnormal forms
of this
gene and ADHD, it could provide us with a powerful new tool for precise diagnosis and early
identification of children at risk, and a signpost toward designing better drug treatment,» said Ed Cook,
associate professor
of psychiatry and
of pediatrics at the University
of Chicago and lead author
of the report.
Dr. Eng and team create scoring system to facilitate identifying individuals to be referred to PTEN
gene testing Researchers have discovered a method for more precise
identification of individuals who should undergo testing for genetic mutations
of the tumor suppressor
gene PTEN, which
associates with a variety
of conditions including several types
of cancers.
Careful manual annotation
of the human reference sequence provides a solid basis for the
identification of disease -
associated genes.
Linkage and candidate
gene studies have been highly successful in the
identification of genes that cause the monogenic variants
of diabetes and, although progress in the more common forms
of T2D has been slow, a number
of genes have now been reproducibly
associated with T2D risk in multiple studies.
As one example
of his contribution, Wahl's team reported the first
identification, isolation and characterization
of mouse fetal mammary stem cells and their
associated gene expression profiles.
Some
of the team's most significant findings since 2009 were the
identification of a
gene mutation
associated with blood cancers and the discovery
of chromosomal crisis where the genome can be shattered into hundreds
of fragments in a single cellular catastrophe.
The immunopurification (IP)
of Argonaute (Ago), a central component
of the RISC in the human and mouse, followed by microarray analyses (Ago IP / microarray method) makes it possible to isolate any Ago -
associated miRNAs and mRNAs without relying on the mechanism
of regulation (i.e. mRNA decay or translational suppression), or sequence conservation, enabling a comprehensive
identification of the miRNA - target
genes in an unbiased manner.
Collectively these tools provided a robust means to interrogate tumor specimens for changes to the genome, which lead to
identification of genomic regions and
genes associated with cancer.
The test identifies seven mutations in three different
genes which permits
identification of the «risk alleles,» which are not causative
of GDV but are highly
associated.