Sentences with phrase «copy number evolution»
«Our preliminary data in cancers such as prostate, colon, liver and lung suggest a punctuated model of copy number evolution is also likely to be operative in other solid cancers,» said Navin.
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Our study suggests punctuated copy number evolution is common in TNBC patients.»
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The two Univerity of Washington studies, «Great ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The discovery came about while researchers were exploring and comparing the accumulation of copy number variants during great ape evolution.
Their work, which is published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows for the first time the existence in Leishmania of a relation between changes in chromosome copy number and the selection of new alleles important for parasite survival.
«Using a powerful combination of experimental evolution and whole - genome sequencing we determined the rate of adaptation and the types of mutations that arise in populations of yeast that are identical except for the number of copies of their genome,» says Lang.