Sentences with phrase «causal mechanisms of this disease»

The causal mechanisms of this disease remain elusive.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Virginia Tech have discovered a new mechanism in the continual arms race between plants and pathogenic bacteria, which tomatoes use to detect the causal agent of bacterial speck disease.

Intersection of immunogenomic resources with disease associated variants paints a detailed picture of disease causal mechanisms.

The results of this study suggest that high - resolution fine - mapping in large samples can convert many discoveries from genome - wide association studies into statistically convincing causal variants, providing a powerful substrate for experimental elucidation of disease mechanisms.

However, since most of the disease variants fall outside the gene coding sequences, thereby implicating gene expression regulation as the causal mechanism, the functional interpretation of the exact role of the associated variants remains to be determined.

However, the recommendation to eat fruit and vegetables to prevent chronic diseases is mainly based on observational epidemiological studies, which leaves much uncertainty regarding the causal mechanism of this association.

• explore multiple biological responses to chronic stress (e.g. elevated inflammation, accelerated atherosclerosis, and increased insulin resistance) to elucidate causal mechanisms of adult diseases that are associated with adverse childhood experiences.