Sentences with phrase «different gene variations»

Increasingly, autism researchers are predicting that personalized, more effective treatments will come from understanding these common brain pathways — and how different gene variations alter them.

Each Pm3 allele in the four new lines displayed the same activity as in the parental line, which results in increased overall activity, since it came from two different gene variations.

Not exact matches

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

So geneticists Stephen O'Rahilly and Sadaf Farooqi at the University of Cambridge, and colleagues, turned to a different kind of genetic variation, known as a deletion, in which entire genes are absent.

This study showed the two subtypes have different genetic origins and involve a dramatically different number of chromosomal rearrangements, mutations and other gene variations.

The results, which focus on two choices near the start of embryo formation, show that, when cells are making decisions about what to become, there is greater variation in the activity of the genes in different cells — the same genes may be turned on in some cells and off in others.

Strong variation, however, is found on the top of the cascade, meaning different master genes exist and it also varies on which amphibian chromosome the master gene is situated.

This resulted in four new wheat lines, each containing two different Pm3 gene variations.

Different Pm3 gene variations, or Pm3 alleles, encode different variations of the Different Pm3 gene variations, or Pm3 alleles, encode different variations of the different variations of the receptor.

This research shows how global studies of our genes can give insight into how our taste for different foods may have been influenced by variation in our ability to smell, and, excitingly, show that it is possible to see back into deep evolutionary time and reconstruct the sensory world of our distant ancestors.

The gene, called the Pm3 resistance gene, exists in different variations, so called alleles.

Different versions of genes can vary at single points in their sequence, and these variations are called SNPs.

Previous work had shown that two variations in the COX - 2 gene, with either a guanine (G) or a cytosine (C) molecule at a particular spot in the gene's DNA sequence, lead to different levels of COX - 2 protein.

By looking at variations in genes for hair and skin color and in the «speech» gene, we have also gained a better sense of how we are similar to and different from Neandertals.

«The lines drawn between different disorders are not related to the genes that predispose to the disorders,» Cantor notes, explaining that two children can present very similar behavioral patterns but have vastly different sets of copy number variations — and vice versa.

GenProfile focuses on the systematic analysis of DNA sequence variation in biomedically relevant genes in order to identify those variants, or combinations of variants (gene profiles), that determine an individual's genetic risk for disease, predict individually different drug response, and ultimately pave the way to a personalized medicine.

So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

And curious as to how widespread this phenomenon might be, the researchers looked for protein families with nearly identical members that are encoded by different genes and had significant variations in ribosome density across the family.

Philippe Froguel of Imperial College London and his colleagues, looking at data from 2154 individuals in France, found a similar association with a different genetic variation very near the same gene.

Nevertheless, variations in evolutionary signatures of selection amongst immune genes from bumblebees and honeybees may point to different pressures exerted by the distinct pathogens that threaten these bees.

However, the combined effects of many different genes cause most variation among individuals.

The way that these genes — this genetic information percolates down into the individual, the way this hierarchy percolates down into an individual might be very different from one person to another and therefore create the kind of infinite ripples or variations in human identity that we experience in human life.

The research also showed that gene expression patterns of individual tumors varied considerably, and could exceed the variation observed between different cancer types.

If you consider 60 genes all shuffling genetic information over and over again you can imagine that is a lot of different variations.

To evade the acquired immune response of the host while persisting in the blood, B. hermsii subsequently undergoes antigenic variation by expressing different alleles of the vsp / vlp gene family.

Examples include the study of allelic variation in the human genome and the development of computational methods for the discovery of cancer - associated genes and diagnostic cancer markers using genomic profiles derived from different tumor types.

A 2014 study from UC Berkley that found that long - term marital satisfaction over time can be affected based on the different variations of this gene that people have.

Dominant black genes usually stop the development of brindle, but the following recessive color genes can produce different variations of the brindle colors.

In addition, a study presented at the 2010 Triennial Heartworm Symposium identified genetic variation in selected fragments of genes among different populations of heartworm microfilariae.

Remember that alleles are different variations of the basic genes that are at specific positions on the chromosome, and determine colors sown in the integument.