Sentences with phrase «ability of a particular gene»

Differences in the ability of a particular gene to influence a child's development depending on who it was inherited from, have been seen in a number of disorders, including Huntington's disease and fragile - X syndrome («Why genes have a gender», New Scientist, 22 May 1993).

Not exact matches

Your baby's abilities are just as unique as the way she looks yet somehow it is easier to accept the expression of eye - color genes than those that determine when your baby will hit a particular milestone.

In flies and mice, «their robustness comes in their genetics, and in particular the ability to rapidly develop systems where we can alter genes,» explains Jonathan Gitlin, a developmental biologist and director of research at MBL.

What we found is that the ability of this chronic social stress to produce maladaptive changes in brain and behavior — loss of pleasure, inability to sleep normally and so on — are mediated through epigenetic modifications of gene expression, in particular, emotional centers of the brain.

Nestler: The ability of this chronic social stress to produce maladaptive changes in brain and behavior are mediated through epigenetic modifications of gene expression in particular emotional centers of the brain.

Analyzing large numbers of cells, each with slight differences in their DNA, for their ability to carry out a behavior or survive a drug treatment can reveal the importance of particular genes, or sections of genes, in those abilities.

Steve: And we've also discovered, because we now have some actual NeandertalDNA to work with, that they did have this particular gene, FOXP2 gene, that is correlated with our ability to speak, not that I'm a good example of [that] right at the moment.

This technique pointed out particular versions of 22 genes, half of which were not previously known to have a role in intellectual ability.