Sentences with phrase «carrying genes for»

Even at the minimum level this is an important finding as a much larger percentage of the breed will be carrying genes for RD.

Dogs with acceptable markings who have puppies with too much white are carrying genes for the extra white and should be bred to mates from families where excess white does not occur.

Carrying the genes for cancer doesn't make...

They directly injected into the cerebrospinal fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's — adult animals in which plaques were well established — viral vectors carrying genes for one of the three APOE variants or a control protein.

So say scientists at Merck, who learned from trials in 2007 that their vaccine, based on a live, weakened adenovirus carrying genes for HIV proteins, was ineffective.

Some blood tests are offered only to women of certain ethnic backgrounds, who may be at higher risk of carrying genes for specific diseases.

When a child is born carrying the gene for celiac, it isn't necessarily «turned on».

You can also have sickle cell trait, which means you carry the gene for sickle cell but don't have the disease.

Doctors said that Rosamere and her ex-husband both carried the gene for albinism.

However, many parents are desperate to know whether their child carries the genes for dwarfism, particularly if one or both of the parents have the condition themselves.

Biologist Stephen Friend is searching for exceptional people who carry genes for serious childhood disease but have never got sick — are you one of them?

He interviews cardiac researchers at the National Institutes of Health to explore whether he, too, carries the gene for his father's disease; he meets a family who has the gene, all of whom live with the knowledge of their eventual undoing.

Spotted mice don't carry a gene for white - tipped tails; the trait is inherited through RNA, not DNA.

All were supplied by Reproductive Genetics Institute (RGI) in Chicago, Illinois, which specializes in helping couples who carry genes for rare diseases create healthy embryos that can then be implanted.

In March three separate teams announced that they had zeroed in on a DNA sequence on chromosome 1 that carries the gene for complement factor H, a protein involved in regulating inflammation.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

When exposed to a magnetic field, injected magnetic nanoparticles heat up and cause neurons carrying a gene for heat sensitivity to fire (shown in yellow, white, green and light blue at right).

A company called Clontech — also based in Palo Alto — makes virally derived vectors that carry the gene for GFP into cells.

Wilson and co-workers engineered AAV to carry the gene for the rare antibody.

In the 1970s, for instance, many African - Americans were denied jobs and insurance coverage because they carried a gene for sickle - cell anemia.

The genetically manipulated agrobacteria, carrying the gene for PAT, were then used to infect the crop in which resistance was required.

Jayson carries a gene for the condition, and the same flawed DNA is carried by his wife, Angela.

In the 1970s, many blacks were denied jobs and insurance coverage because they carried a gene for sickle - cell anemia, including those who lacked the two copies of a mutation necessary to get sick.

Humans carry a gene for a protein in cells called apolipoprotein E, which helps clear amyloid - beta from the brain by binding to it and breaking it down.

Researchers long have believed that to accomplish this feat, RNA viruses had to carry the gene for an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, to convert their RNA into DNA.

Filoviruses are RNA viruses that don't carry the gene for reverse transcriptase, yet that hasn't stopped them from somehow leaving their mark.

-- Fears over genetic engineering have been heightened by an Oxford scientist's plan to release a virus that carries a gene for scorpion venom.

At present, the researchers have permission to test the TILs carrying the gene for neomycin resistance on 10 patients suffering from melanoma, a type of skin cancer.

A plasmid in the E. coli carried the gene for extended spectrum cephalosporin resistance, as well as four other resistance genes.

Human beings, in turn, carry the genes for growing a tail but apparently lack the ancient instructions — lost in 75 million years of evolution — for completing the process.

An international team of scientists, including four from Brown University, conducted and analyzed tests using a «knock - in» mouse carrying a gene for a mutant DNA / RNA binding protein called TDP - 43, which causes a form of inherited ALS in humans.

About 1 in 6000 newborns are affected, and about 1 in 40 people carry the gene for SMA.

Testing is performed by analyzing samples of blood or body tissues to determine if you or your child carry genes for certain inherited disorders.

Mobile DNA can carry genes for virulence and drug resistance, as well as benign genes.

Bacteria will frequently contain small chromosomes called plasmids that commonly carry genes for antibiotic resistance.

Organoids grown from the cells of a patient carrying the gene for severe microcephaly, however, didn't grow as large because those brain regions didn't develop properly.

In contrast, among Old World (African) primates such as humans, the two different X chromosome genes duplicated so that each X chromosome now carries the genes for both receptor types, giving both males and females trichromatic color vision.

Avalanche has two drug candidates designed to treat the most common forms of color vision deficiency: AVA - 322 carries the gene for L - opsin and targets protan defects and AVA - 323 carries the gene for M - opsin and targets deutan defects.

Genetic testing is available for you to see if you or your partner carry genes for Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell, Spinal Muscular Atrophy and other disease that may affect your decision making.

Some dogs may carry the genes for a condition that leads to arthritis, but may never show the condition in their generation.

That means that she does not carry the gene for degenerative myelopathy, she will never develop the disease and can not produce it in any of her puppies.

Seemingly normal dogs still carry the gene for CHD and are bred, causing the disease to stay within the genepool.

By knowing which dogs had the marker for epilepsy, breeders could make better, more informed decisions and not breed two dogs that carried the genes for epilepsy, for example.

Health Issues This breed is known to carry the gene for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which causes a thickening of the heart walls.

This means, according to the genetics experts at The University of Utah Genetics Department, that in order for you to have blue eyes, your parents have to each carry a gene for that color.

In the case of the Blue Fawn French Bulldog, Blue Haven French Bulldogs explains that both parents carry the dilute (blue) gene, but they also both carry the gene for fawn coloring.

Dogs found to be carrying the gene for PRA — whether or not they actually have the disorder — should not be bred.

Genetic testing of blood samples is available to identify whether a particular dog carries the gene for PRA.

Yellow appears in Aussies because it is recessive to black and red, meaning that both parents have to carry the gene for any yellow pups to appear.

Boxers do not normally carry the genes for black fur.