Sentences with phrase «beneficial gene variant»

Not exact matches

The standard theory of evolution is that animals that randomly inherited genes that produced beneficial traits — in the case of the giraffe, a longer neck, which made it easier to reach tall acacia trees — ate better, reproduced more often and passed these gene variants to their offspring.

«We are the first to show a possible genetic connection in this respect,» said Dr. Amin, adding that this implies that such a therapy might be beneficial for patients carrying risk variants in the NKPD1 gene.