Sentences with phrase «different versions of their genes»

Different versions of genes at each location can lead to higher or lower protein concentration in soybean.

The study illustrates the genetic foundation of evolution, including how genes can flow from one species to another, and how different versions of a gene within a species can contribute to the formation of entirely new species, the researchers report in the journal Nature.

Infants in the study who had different versions of the gene showed a more typical response to stress.

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

To test their hunch, Duda and Palumbi tracked down the different versions of a gene that encodes one type of neurotoxin.

Neves and Chess hypothesize that a different version of the gene may affect humans similarly.

It is not that these are different versions of genes; they are different genes.

They checked the offspring's DNA to see how the frequency of different versions of their genes shifted compared with those frequencies in the parents.

The researchers mutated the DNA of the killer germ to make many different versions of its genes.

It lists the various genes known to impact Aussie coat color, the different versions of the genes, and which combinations result in which colors or patterns.

Not exact matches

The scientists also generated a panel of (reconstructed) ancestral and existing TRIM5 genes (19 total), expressed them in cultured cell lines, and exposed the cells to 16 different retroviruses (lentiviruses and others) to see which TRIM5 versions conferred resistance to which viruses.

By splicing genes for the original protein with ones that code for proteins containing different instructions, the researchers created a modified version of N - WASP.

However, when the sequence of that genome emerged it appeared that the scientists were seeing double — the organism seemed to have two very different versions of many of its genes.

To determine the rate at which DNA mutates, researchers compare different versions of the same gene from two to several dozen species.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soil.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators have developed a new analysis tool that was able to show, for the first time, which genes were expressed by individual cells in different genetic versions of a benign blood cancer.

These variants are found in very different places in the genome: version H3.1 is found only in parts of the genome where genes are not being activated; version H3.3 is present only in places where genes are active.

Once a mutation is observed and a gene is identified as being responsible, biologists will knock out that gene and introduce different versions of it to see what phenotypes they can induce.

BRAIN MAZE Even before symptoms show up, young people who have a version of a gene linked to Alzheimer's disease tap into different areas of the brain to navigate through a virtual reality maze.

UCLA scientists used DropSynth to make thousands of bacterial genes with different versions of phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase, or PPAT (pictured).

Because previous studies had suggested that different alleles (versions) of the IL - 28B gene affect immune responses, the researchers determined which alleles the transplant recipients carried.

If a mother has two different versions, or alleles, of a gene, conventional genetic testing can't work out which allele she passed on to her child, because her blood contains both.

Different versions of the FRO2 gene («variants») fell into two groups, those that were associated with a short root and those that were associated with a long root.

In humans, Galatzer - Levy found that different versions of the fkbp5 gene were able to predict specific differences in extinction learning related to PTSD symptoms such as reliving or re-experiencing the traumatic event; avoiding reminders of the event; and, in particular, hyperarousal, or the inability to sleep or concentrate.

So far, scientists have found that different populations of living humans have inherited the Neandertal version of genes that cause diabetes, lupus, and Crohn's disease; alter immune function; and affect the function of the protein keratin in skin, nails, and hair.

Scientists have suspected that, like cells in the immune system, olfactory neurons diversify through recombination — that is, each cell randomly shuffles its DNA so it carries a slightly different version of the same gene.

The two groups, they found, had different versions of a crucial gene, one that coded for a protein involved in pigmentation.

In a paper that June, scientists demonstrated how it might be possible to efficiently edit genes — that is, how to snip DNA at a particular spot and insert different DNA, a sort of biological version of word processing's «find and replace.»

Having the right alleles (different versions of a given gene, as when the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor produces 30 percent fewer receptors than the more common A2 allele) available somewhere in the population can make one species do better than another when the climate perturbs things.