Sentences with phrase «by human geneticists»

These new genomic technologies are also being employed by human geneticists to advance the success rate of Mendelian disease gene discovery.

The team, led by human geneticist Koh - ichiro Yoshiura of Nagasaki University, had previously localized the earwax gene to a region on human chromosome 16.

To nail down these evasive genes, teams led by human geneticist Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and neurologist Jan Hillert of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, compared several thousand MS patients from the United States and Europe with their family members and healthy controls.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has launched an investigation into controversial human embryo studies conducted by Mark Hughes, a molecular geneticist who once worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In December's «The Hidden History of Men» by Robert Kunzig, anthropological geneticist Spencer Wells claims that «we can definitely rule out a date prior to 20,000 years ago» for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas.

Most of the rechristened genes were identified by geneticists studying the fruit fly; when equivalent genes were later found in the human genome, researchers simply continued using the name of the fruit fly gene to avoid confusion.

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanHuman History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanhuman DNA.

To probe this connection, geneticist Wolfgang Enard of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology engineered mice by replacing their FOXP2 gene with the human one.

«This is a yeast that lives or dies by human p53 activity,» says Johns Hopkins yeast geneticist Jef Boeke.

Baylor College of Medicine human geneticist Malcolm Brenner was dismayed by the news of Gilman's resignation.

Geneticists speak of «mapping» the human genome, so that we know where genes «for» all kinds of things (from homosexuality to manic depression) are located; a promotional video produced by the Human Genome Project asks viewers to «imagine a map that would lead us to the richest treasure in the world», with which we will know «where... every genetic inheritance of humankind is to be found&rahuman genome, so that we know where genes «for» all kinds of things (from homosexuality to manic depression) are located; a promotional video produced by the Human Genome Project asks viewers to «imagine a map that would lead us to the richest treasure in the world», with which we will know «where... every genetic inheritance of humankind is to be found&raHuman Genome Project asks viewers to «imagine a map that would lead us to the richest treasure in the world», with which we will know «where... every genetic inheritance of humankind is to be found».

Snuppy's creator, geneticist Woo Suk Hwang, had just been fired by SNU for falsely claiming to have cloned human embryos.

«I think that this paper clearly rejects the model of selection» posited by Collinge's team, says University of Chicago human geneticist Anna Di Rienzo.

To investigate, Jan Vijg, a geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and his colleagues turned to the Human Mortality Database, which spans 38 countries and is jointly run by US and German demographers.

Human hair color is a trait usually governed by many genes, but study author Sean Myles, a geneticist at Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro, Canada, suspected things might be simpler in the Solomon Islands because he saw almost no variation in shades of blond hair.

The theory that all humans are descended from a recent African ancestor was promoted by geneticists who study living populations.The fossil record provides independent support for this model

«Our approach can distinguish between two subtly different scenarios that could explain the genetic similarities shared by Neanderthals and modern humans from Europe and Asia,» Konrad Lohse, study co-author and population geneticist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said in a statement.

The most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds.

A probable pre-Clovis age for Monte Verde in Chile and reports by geneticists and linguists that human populations may have migrated to the Americas as early as 35 kya seem to demand a rethinking of Pleistocene peopling models.»

Recently, however, geneticists have surprised themselves by finding evidence of recent and rapid changes in human genomes in response to the pressures of civilization.