Sentences with phrase «encode olfactory receptors»

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In 2004 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptors.

McRae and colleagues found that the genetic variants associated all lie in or near genes that encode so - called odorant or olfactory receptors.

The researchers scoured the already deciphered mouse genome, looking for genes that might encode additional receptor proteins in its olfactory system, the sensory cells that connect the nose to the brain.

This has raised the question of whether all OR genes encode true olfactory receptors [13].

We show that most genes encoding olfactory and vomeronasal receptors have complex, multi-exonic structures that generate different isoforms.

The olfactory (OR) and vomeronasal receptor (VR) repertoires are collectively encoded by 1700 genes and pseudogenes in the mouse genome.