Sentences with phrase «copies of the amylase»

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/ When I did a high carb low fat diet, my fasting blood sugar kept rising, and when you consider that some people who have fewer copies of amylase genes, may actually do better on a high fat low carb diet.

I agree it's significant that dogs have between four and 30 copies of the amylase gene, and this wide range would indicate that some dogs are much less able to handle starch than others.

Not exact matches

While chimps have only two copies of the salivary amylase gene (one on each of the relevant chromosome pair), humans have an average of six, with some people having as many as 15 (Nature Genetics, vol 39, p 1256).

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Both the hunter - gatherers as well as the early farmers displayed high copy numbers of amylase genes in their genomes, suggesting that both populations had already adapted to a starch - rich diet.

In this work we use high - resolution analysis of copy number, and analysis of segregation in trios, to define new, independent allelic series of amylase CNVs in sub-Saharan Africans, including a series of higher - order expansions of a unit consisting of one copy each of AMY1, AMY2A and AMY2B.

Evidence for multiple copies of the salivary amylase gene in high starch eating Asians, and a gene variant that is important for breaking down fats in plant foods in Europeans and Middle Easterners may reflect an adaption to agriculture (Hancock et al, 2010).

He also mentions genetic studies that claim that humans have more copies of the genes for amylase than other great apes strongly suggesting that humans are designed to digest starch.

The researchers first found that dogs had between four and 30 copies of a gene that codes for amylase while wolves had only two copies.

Dogs had four to 30 copies of the gene for amylase, a protein that starts the breakdown of starch in the intestine.