Sentences with phrase «effect regulatory sequences»

As you said it is an extremely small number of differences that you find genetically between humans and chimps, but it is an extremely important one, and what seems to make it so important is that a lot o these differences seem to affect what are in effect regulatory sequences.

Not exact matches

You would expect to see it in the regulatory sequences because then the effect of a small change can be huge because you are affecting the timing and maybe the sequence of events in development.

Many are probably simply the consequence of 6 million years of genetic drift, with little effect on body or behavior, whereas other small changes — perhaps in regulatory, noncoding sequences — may have dramatic consequences.

The complete genome sequence has revealed an unusual breadth (in number and in effect) of DNA inversion events that potentially control expression of many different components, including surface and secreted components, regulatory molecules, and restriction - modification proteins.

Genome editing technology enables precise modification of individual protein coding genes, as well as noncoding regulatory sequences, enabling the elucidation of functional effects in human disease relevant cellular systems.