Sentences with phrase «analyze genes found»

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«Ninety five percent of the aromatic rice analyzed shared the same version of the major gene for fragrance found in Thai Jasmine rice,» says Dr. Melissa Fitzgerald, grain quality researcher at IRRI.

To clear up confusion about the origin of the aroma gene found in Thai Jasmine rice, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) analyzed 318 varieties of aromatic rice from the International Rice Genebank, including 16 types of Thai Jasmine rice.

Researchers from several institutions, including, UCLA, Boston University, Stanford University and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife, analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic age as measured by changes in proteins coating the DNA.

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

In the current study, researchers analyzed 48 ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, looking at symptom sets in patients found to have rare or previously unknown changes in the DNA code of the four genes that disrupted brain function.

Researchers analyzed the genetic sequencing data of 718 multiple myeloma patients and found that African - Americans had increased mutations in the genes BCL7A, BRWD3 and AUTS2, while white people had more mutations in the genes TP53 and IRF4.

In collaboration with Yi Xing from UCLA, the team catalogued and analyzed how gene expression patterns in skin cells differed among the Esrp knockouts and found hundreds of significant changes.

For instance, when the researchers analyzed 146 human genes implicated in 168 neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, they found 104 counterpart genes in the sea slugs.

When the team analyzed the patient's DNA, they found a mutation in both copies of the leptin gene.

By analyzing more than a trillion sequencing letters, the team found over 100,000 gene switches.

When population geneticist Andrea Manica and graduate student Marcos Gallego Llorente at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom analyzed the sequence, they found that the Mota man had brown eyes and dark skin, as well as three gene variants associated with adaptation to high altitudes; some peaks in the highlands reach 4500 meters, as high as the Matterhorn.

The researchers also analyzed an independent database of 536 glioblastoma samples and found the same signature of eight genes in those cases.

The team therefore analyzed the case history of 890 breast cancer patients and found that low Numb - 1 and -2 levels correlated with an increased risk of aggressive, metastatic disease, particularly for the luminal subtype of breast cancers, which tend to retain a normal, functional copy of the p53 gene.

In their new study, the researchers did not isolate individual organisms from the forest soil, but analyzed the whole gene pool found in the earth, the metagenome.

«We found global increases in many dozens of genes,» says Tavazoie, «so we analyzed their sequences and found that the majority of them had significantly increased numbers of these two specific codons.»

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

The researchers in the Greenberg lab found that across all analyzed datasets, and in studies of different mouse brain regions, in the absence of MECP2 the expression of long genes is increased.

We've analyzed a number of patients» DNA to look for the mutation in the gene we [found].

«While we expected to find some mutations in stem cell lines, we were surprised to find that about five percent of the stem cell lines we analyzed had acquired mutations in a tumor - suppressing gene called p53,» said Merkle.

In a new study of 1,023 Taiwanese adults, Cole analyzed data from a variety of lonely people and found that the hormone cortisol was not doing its job of suppressing the genes associated with inflammation.

When the investigators analyzed the genes of MECs infected with EBV, they found genetic characteristics associated with high - grade, estrogen - receptor - negative breast cancer (an aggressive form of the disease).

A second major finding of the new study, which analyzes the genomes of over 2,500 «simplex» families — those in which a single child but neither parent nor siblings, if any, have ASD — is that the pool of spontaneously mutated genes contributing to ASD across the population totals about 400.

Through analyzing several datasets of prostate cancer cases and patient outcomes, the researchers found that a high level of expression of two genes, TOP2A and EZH2, was associated with early recurrence of prostate cancer and metastatic spread, leading to an increased risk of death.

The activity of each gene then was analyzed in an attempt to find the specific transcription factor responsible for regulating the conversion of sugar to starch in the above - ground portions of the plant, primarily the grains.

Frommer's team analyzed maize genes involved in sugar - related processes to find ones that were «turned on» during seed development.

Paek's research group analyzed plants mutated in a regulatory gene called NAC016 and found that the nac016 mutant plants were more resistant to drought.

The researchers analyzed the genomes of all four children and found that each had two mutated copies of the CD70 gene, resulting in nonfunctioning or nonexistent CD70 proteins.

«Once you find metabolites and want to analyze them for new antibiotics or new pathways, you need the genome information to identify the enzymes and clone the genes.»

After analyzing blood samples from 13 exposed and unexposed babies, she found that the expression levels of 11 genes were significantly different in newborns with arsenic - exposed mothers.

Berenbrink and Campbell systematically analyzed the genes and available information for all mammalian myoglobins, including those from deep - diving species, and found that the myoglobins from aquatic mammals had large positive surface charges compared with those from land animals.

By analyzing variation in a specific bacterial gene in his samples — the greater the variability, the higher the variety of species — Fierer found that deserts contained up to twice as many bacterial species, roughly 10,000 per 10 square meters, as did acidic rain forest soils.

They found some snippets of the C. elephantopus genome in the population, and using a special computer model they analyzed how recently these genes would have entered the population.

Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.

The researchers say they didn't start with the notion that they'd find adaptations in genes for metabolism, they simply popped out of the data as it was analyzed.

All biological processes that were analyzed from total and unique genes were found with high significance of FDR p - value < 0.05, except of «connective tissue development» cluster within the biological process cartilage and bone biogenesis, with FDR p - value of 0.068.

When Moxon's team analyzed the genome of the bacterium N. meningitidis, they found 65 possible contingency genes — enough to put billions and billions of variations in the bank.

Here we refer to «unique» genes as those found in only one of the genomes analyzed, even if they might be present in some pseudomonad strains outside of this study.

To biologically validate our findings in discordant twins, we analyzed the expression of six selected genes in adipose tissue from unrelated subjects with NGT or T2D (case - control cohort 1).

A gene coding for a LuxR solo was found in strain UM270, not so in the rest of the pseudomonads analyzed.

Using a specialized DNA array containing thousands of Arabidopsis genes (an EST microarray), the researchers then analyzed gene expression in their mutant and quickly found that MPK4 somehow controls the expression of anti-microbial genes of the SAR response.

deCODE is continuing its research on both phenotypes to identify and analyze the roles of these genes, with the aim of finding novel diagnostic markers as well as drug targets that can be used to combat asthma and allergies by going to the underlying causes of both conditions.

Consistent with our earlier findings analyzing OCT3 / 4 and NANOG gene expression, both promoters were hypermethylated and hypomethylated in hNSCs and hESCs, respectively (Figure 3B).

DNMT1 sites were found to be dependent on DAXX for recruitment by analyzing DNMT1 ChIP - Seq following DAXX knockdown (K / D), corroborating previous findings that DAXX recruits DNMT1 to repress its target genes.

To better understand UTIs and potentially offer new therapeutic strategies, a team of researchers analyzed 43 strains of E. coli sampled from 14 women with recurrent UTIs, and found that infection depends on both individual host susceptibility and how the bacteria express their genes.

By analyzing genome sequence data from human populations, including 1269 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa, we identify a diverse array of large copy number variants affecting the host invasion receptor genes GYPA and GYPB We find that a nearby association with severe malaria is explained by a complex structural rearrangement involving the loss of GYPB and gain of two GYPB - A hybrid genes, which encode a serologically distinct blood group antigen known as Dantu.

Researchers analyzing the machinery the roundworm C. elegans uses to repress genes on an entire chromosome have found surprising principles that may apply widely to this type of wholesale gene...

«The findings suggest these genes are inactivated or deregulated more frequently than suggested by simply analyzing structural changes in the genome,» Mullighan said.

Recognizing these findings can alert you to the need to analyze a different or additional cancer risk gene.

Methodology / Principal Findings: Fecal samples from healthy dogs (n = 32), dogs with acute non-hemorrhagic diarrhea (NHD; n = 12), dogs with acute hemorrhagic diarrhea (AHD; n = 13), and dogs with active (n = 9) and therapeutically controlled idiopathic IBD (n = 10) were analyzed by 454 - pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and qPCR assays.