Sentences with phrase «detailed genetic studies»

«The paper is also a powerful demonstration about how detailed genetic studies can help us understand human diseases.»

We carried out detailed genetic studies and used whole genome sequencing to look at every part of the DNA at diagnosis, and every part of the DNA at relapse,» says Dr. Dick.

Now, this hypothesis has gained support from a detailed genetic study of Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) as they snared crickets and began to digest them alive.

Not exact matches

A degree of kinship between human beings and the rest of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail of our interrelationship with the rest of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.

«They tend to be people who are highly motivated health - seekers and science geeks,» says Barbara Bernhardt of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who has conducted detailed interviews with 60 volunteers in the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative, a pioneering effort to study the medical value of genetic information.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

The team of researchers was the first in the world to use modern genetic, molecular and biochemical methods to study tooth enamel defects in detail.

ScienceExpress publishes the first detailed study of the new virus's genetic makeup, explaining the twisted histories of its closest relatives.

As far as we're aware, it's the first study worldwide to show this in such detail, including a large number of genetic variants.»

The researchers studied the adhesion mechanisms using detailed biochemical analyses and state - of - the - art genetic systems, combined with unique H. pylori clinical strains and biopsy - materials collected from individual patients and animals over a span of many years.

Hawass, Pusch and 15 other scientists continue to perform detailed anthropological, radiological and genetic studies on the precious mummies in a lab built into the basement of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo — two floors below the famous golden mask.

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Oncogene used next - generation sequencing technologies to perform the most detailed DNA - based analysis to date of 25 commonly used bladder cancer cell lines, allowing researchers to match patient tumors with their closest genetic cell line match, and demonstrated genetic alterations that may make cells more or less sensitive to common therapies.

The three stages of CD8 + T cell development are well known, but the current study identifies a detailed map of the regulatory circuitry, such as interactions between enhancers and promoters — genetic regulatory regions that function together in driving genes to transcribe proteins to carry out biological processes.

Frustrated by the lack of a good study model, Krasnow and his colleagues turned to the mouse lemur and began conducting detailed physiologic and genetic studies on hundreds of these petite, docile creatures in the rainforests of Madagascar.

The study, published by Nature Genetics, was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) using detailed genetic data provided by UK Biobank and data provided by other countries, and supported by the Wellcome Trust.

«This important study not only adds more genetic risk factors to the list of those known for testicular germ cell tumours — the most common cancer in young men — but also adds detail to the emerging picture of testicular cancer as a strongly heritable disease.

The study was the first to profile this endangered primate in great detail to reveal the genetic diversity, demography and adaptation or this exotic, rare primate.

You might even take a biopsy, a small sample of whale flesh, and do a more detailed study of genetic differences among individual Humpbacks.

He studies the characteristics and genetics of hereditary syndromes and provides evaluations for genetic diagnosis and treatments for children and adults, believing that detailed phenotyping and genotyping can improve our understanding of genetic factors in disease and lead to the development of new treatments.

Since 1997, he has directed the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in the Nurses» Health Study and other large cohorts comprising more than 400,000 men and women who have provided detailed information on their dietary habits and lifestyle in addition to blood or cheek cell samples for genetic and other laboratory analyses.

The results of the study show that hereditary factors play a significant role for more than 75 per cent of the proteins, and a detailed genetic analysis demonstrates 16 genes with a strong effect on protein levels.

The research group will now continue to study in detail how the genetic adaptations affect dogs» behaviour.

The 2013 study, which was led by David Altshuler (now chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals), had shown that one gene in that region, SLC16A11, harbored several suspicious mutations, and more detailed genetic mapping of the region strengthened the case for focusing on it.

Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»

12/19/2007 Study Details Atomic Structure of Proteins Altered in Autism A new study by an international group of scientists describes in atomic detail a protein complex that is affected by genetic mutations implicated in autism spectrum disorStudy Details Atomic Structure of Proteins Altered in Autism A new study by an international group of scientists describes in atomic detail a protein complex that is affected by genetic mutations implicated in autism spectrum disorstudy by an international group of scientists describes in atomic detail a protein complex that is affected by genetic mutations implicated in autism spectrum disorders.

Case control studies are encouraged to make use of the SciLifeLab Swedish Genetic Variant Database selected to genetically represent the Swedish population (see below for more details).

Future studies with such designs and more detailed assessments of the correlates of poverty, such as nutrition, parental psychopathology, and genetic factors, are needed to further elucidate the mechanisms of risk.