Sentences with phrase «additional gene families»

Not exact matches

Eight additional affected children in six unrelated families were found to also have disease - causing mutations in this gene.

A family of neuropeptide genes which includes the gene encoding ELH along with two additional genes encoding the A and B peptides thought to initiate the egg - laying process has been isolated and their nucleotide sequence has been determined.

If a woman with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancers tests negative for the BRCA1 / 2 genes, that does not mean her relatives are not at risk, says Daly — her siblings could still carry the gene, or there could be additional genes present that predispose them to cancer that clinicians don't yet know how to test for.

Additional examination of the two genes in anoxeria - prone families gave the researchers a handle on which DNA sequence variations conferred the most risk.

The two families had distinct facial dysmorphic features that led Karaca to identify the gene in three additional families with very similar features.

Indeed, the genome comparisons revealed that angiosperms evolved 1179 novel genes, many of which gave rise to additional related genes to make up whole new gene families, says project co-leader Claude dePamphilis, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

They had to use additional data, such as family samples, to determine which genes were paternally or maternally imprinted.

Finally, we identify additional immune genes based on homology to manually curated immune gene families from ImmunoDB [11].

Additional gene duplication and divergence in eumetazoans further increased transcription factor gene family number, which in general are 2 to 34 times larger in eumetazoans than in Amphimedon.