Sentences with phrase «detect gene variations»
With the completion of the first phase of the Human Genome Project in 2000, and the advent of sequencing technologies that can detect gene variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), for the first time scientists have the tools in hand to find the key immune genes and genetic networks that play roles in vaccine response.
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Lacking money to outfit the new lab, Wang and Xin bought used equipment: a single channel DNA sequencer (bought and barely touched by a Harvard Medical School researcher); second - hand centrifuges and pipettes; a reconditioned CytoScan HD system that detects variations in the number of copies of a gene.
Various bat species that emit high - frequency squeaks to detect prey and avoid obstacles share a high degree of variation in the FOXP2 gene, according to a new study, suggesting that genetic changes in the gene helped promote the evolution of this ability.
«One of Hlusko's goals is to detect and identify a few of these genes with major effects on variation in tooth size and shape in general.
«One of Leslea's goals is to detect and identify a few of these genes with major effects on variation in tooth size and shape in general.
As an example, skeletal malformations and dysplasias, often detected through routine prenatal ultrasound examination, constitute a phenotypic finding in more than 300 syndromic and non-syndromic disorders and their genetic etiology may be due to a wide variety of genetic aberrations, ranging from copy number variations to single gene mutations.
It detects harmful variations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.