Sentences with phrase «components of the human genome»
All in all, the virus - like components of the human genome amount to almost half of our DNA.
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As a result of this large - scale, global collaboration between 440 researchers in 32 labs, 80 % of components of the human genome are now associated with at least one biochemical function.
Not exact matches
To determine how the cells switch from one type to another, they took three human uterine carcinosarcoma samples and sequenced the genomes of cells in two parts of each tumor: the carcinoma and sarcoma components.
The mitochondrial genome of healthy humans also exhibits some natural variation — a single component of the mitochondrial DNA sometimes differs between one human and another — this is known as a SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism, «snip»).
The properties of the human Y chromosome - namely, male specificity, haploidy and escape from crossing over - make it an unusual component of the genome, and have led to its genetic variation becoming a key part of studies of human evolution, population history, genealogy, forensics and male medical genetics.