Sentences with phrase «copies of a particular gene»

If you inherit one copy of a particular gene mutation it seems to protect you from Alzheimer's.

The best chance of happiness comes from two copies of a particular gene.

Having two copies of a particular gene mutation will prevent a dog from absorbing Vitamin B12, or cobalamin.

Not exact matches

To coax the apples to create these particular anti-browning RNA molecules, the scientists gave the apple extra copies of the browning gene that were tweaked to set off the plant's interference mechanism.

This particular founder was born missing the letters A (for adenine) and G (guanine) from the DNA chain at the 185 site on one copy of his or her BRCA1 gene.

Angelman syndrome, which causes learning difficulties, speech problems, seizures, jerky movements and an unusually happy disposition, results when a gene inherited from the mother in a particular area of chromosome 15 is mutated and the other copy of the gene, inherited from the father, is silenced.

As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.

Having just one copy of a particular variant of a gene called CREBRF is associated with a 1.5 increase in BMI.

Laurent Keller at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Kenneth Ross at the University of Georgia, Athens, were scanning the genes of various populations of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) when they noticed something strange: Queen ants who had their own colonies carried two copies of the dominant variety of a particular gene — they were homozygous for the variety, that is — while those who shared a nest with other queens were heterozygous, carrying only one copy.

They can do this in various ways, but the new pictures are about one way in particular: events occurring after the attachment of the machinery to an RNA message (mRNA) copied from a gene.

Transcription is the first step of gene expression, in which a particular segment of DNA is copied into RNA.

Simply replicating a piece of a particular gene — from one copy in mice to more than 200 in humans — may have prompted some of the changes in the brain that define us as human, according to a new study.

In particular, Lee kept finding additional copies of specific genes.

You can link them to an enzyme that changes under a particular environmental condition, for instance, or link the fluorescent gene to a gene for something else that you're studying — let's call it gene - X — such that any organism with a copy of gene X lights up.

Dogs with DM have two copies of a particular version of a gene called SOD1.