Sentences with phrase «area on chromosome»

Linkage studies use genetic markers, which act like signposts, pointing researchers to the general area on the chromosome where genes associated with certain traits likely reside.

By identifying genetic markers that are linked to the trait, progressively more precise areas on a chromosome are defined until the gene is identified.

Not exact matches

The gene is located on chromosome 1, an area that's been scrutinized for prostate cancer genes since 1996, when family studies revealed a link between a region of that chromosome and the disease (ScienceNOW, 21 November 1996).

Actively researching, highly credentialed scientists in many areas of study are proposing that the complexity of life on Earth and the links between cell structure, RNA, and chromosomes point to a common intelligent designer, rather than to common ancestry.

The prevailing theory for decades has been that extra copies of genes on a specific area of chromosome 21, known as the Down syndrome critical region (DSCR), cause the mental and physical features of Down syndrome.

Nowell searched for an expert on chromosomes in the area to work with and found Hungerford.

One of the areas that is known is that genetic factors have a powerful contribution to its origins and there have been genes implicated at the last count on all 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

The evidence emerged from a linkage study of Icelandic families that showed that schizophrenia correlated with an area on the eighth of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

I know it sounds like a late - night TV offer, with a vegetable dicer thrown in for free, but one of the most exciting areas of aging research is on the importance of the length of the tips of your chromosomes, called telomeres.

As long as some gene on a different chromosome does not interfere, all dogs with the dominant KB allele would be black in those areas of the coat where «dark» is called for, such as all over in some breeds or the saddle in other breeds.

Another allele, on a different chromosome locus, can cause the arrangement or packed density of pigment granules to give a brownish color in areas that are commonly black in many breeds: nose, dorsal haircoat, etc..

Her ceramics feature female nudes with red - tipped breasts that poke out of the sculptures — urns that offer a feminist take on Bay Area funk (think Robert Arneson with two X chromosomes).

For those of you not on Team Cilantro, consider this your talking points... and impress your naysaying cilantro - loving friends by boasting about your unique version of a single - nucleotide polymorphism in the area of chromosome 11!

Genetic studies have focused attention on the area of DYX2 on chromosome 6p21.3 as several genes in this locus have been associated with reading disabilities as well as the gene areas DCDC2 and KIAA0319 appear to both contribute to reading and writing disabilities.