Sentences with phrase «carrier of the gene»

There is now a DNA test to identify carriers of the gene.

New research has revealed the healthy carriers of a gene that causes a rare respiratory disease are taller and larger than average, with greater respiratory capacity.

Lisa Harris, of Dalton High School in New York City, won this year's top Siemens prize for individuals — a $ 100,000 college scholarship — for developing a new method to detect carriers of a gene responsible for cystic fibrosis.

The new study focused on 40 cognitively healthy older adults between the ages of 65 and 75 who are carriers of a gene variant (APOE e4) that is known to contribute to the risk of developing late - onset Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers also added that detection of APOE 4 is particularly striking, as carriers of the gene have higher odds of committing suicide.

While the mother expresses the gene by hyperovulating, the father would be a silent carrier of the gene.

Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves

Collies and other herding breeds are rare but known carriers of this gene, making ivermectin derivatives such as selamectin a better alternative for herding breeds in general.

Researchers also added that detection of APOE 4 is particularly striking, as carriers of the gene have

The ability to identify carriers of the gene for PRA by a blood test will be a tremendous aid to dog breeders.

Testing aside, it is completely possible to not be a carrier of the gene and still love to travel and / or exhibit strong curiosity.»

Let's say, just for the heck of it, they are both carriers of gene that has a high probability of producing a child that wouldn't make it to his or her first birthday.

The son of the couple would not, although he may be a carrier of the genes and his daughter may be more likely to have twins.

According to studies, approximately one out of every 40 individuals in the United States is a carrier of the gene responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to weaken over time.

According to recent studies, approximately one out of every 40 individuals in the United States is a carrier of the gene responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to weaken over time.

«How a drug is going to work on a carrier of the gene variant could be worse or it could be better, but it's likely going to be different,» Connor said.

Only people with two copies of the gene have the disease, but it became possible to detect three - quarters of the carriers of the gene who have only one copy.

• 45 - year - old woman who is a carrier of the gene that causes Huntington's disease, but who has never shown any signs of the disease itself: likely to be declined (may qualify for $ 300,000 coverage at $ 3,000 to $ 4,200 annually

Even if the sire and dam do not display symptoms of these crippling genetic diseases, they may be carriers of the gene.

It is a genetic condition and as many as 17 % of the wirehaired Dachshunds are carriers of the gene that cause this condition.

It is inherited as a simple recessive which means that two normal dogs may be carriers of the gene, and when bred together can produce an affected dog.

The focus of the closest common ancestor analysis is to find the genetic spread of the defective gene, and therefore, the breadth of the breeding population that is at risk for being carriers of the gene.

More than a third of the Pembroke dogs tested were carriers of the gene.