Sentences with phrase «activity of some genes varies»

For example, investigators found that for the mouse immune system, metabolic processes and stress response, the activity of some genes varied between mice and humans, which echoes earlier research.

Which parent a chromosome comes from is important because the activity of some genes varies depending on whether the genes are on a chromosome inherited from the mother or from the father.

Not exact matches

Most genes have hundreds of such sequences, with varying activity and uniqueness in the genome.

They found that more than half of the 7,000 genes expressed in the liver vary in activity from one layer to another, a number that is about ten times greater than previous estimates.

Perera turned the full beam of her attention on Tycko as he explained how the cord - blood samples showed that the gene's activity varied and that it varied in ways that suggested the differences were not random but environmentally influenced.

The researchers discovered that DNA methylation — a fundamental, life - long process in which a methyl group is added or removed from the cytosine molecule in DNA to promote or suppress gene activity and expression — does in fact vary between FLS from the knees and hips of RA patients.

Hoping to develop a treatment that works more broadly across diseases, a Penn Vet team used canine disease models to closely examine how retinal gene activity varied during the progression of three different forms of inherited vision disease.

The finding suggests that these varied Wnt genes regulate Smed - beta - catenin - 1 activity to provide the positional information by which the organism specifies the location of its head and tail during regeneration.