Sentences with phrase «determined by a single gene»

Because Huntington's is determined by a single gene, Liu was able to easily isolate its effects on the birds.

This means the disease was determined by a single gene.

This means that it is not associated with the sex chromosomes, but simply determined by a single gene that one parent can pass to an offspring, the result having varying degrees of severity.

Not exact matches

Each inherited trait is determined by one or more genes and is not a feature of a single type - pattern as required by the blood theory.

A single miRNA can ramp down expression of multiple genes — but the number of genes affected by known miRNAs hasn't been determined.

Now, a study led by a researcher at the Salk Institute has found that variants of a single gene can largely determine a plant's ability to thrive in environments where iron is scarce.

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that