Sentences with phrase «encoded in the human genome»

Studying such species could provide clues about how human language evolved, and how language abilities are encoded in the human genome.

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When her appointment came to a close, a colleague rolled his chair over to her one day and suggested her for a data scientist job with the Stanford - based Data Coordination Center of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Consortium, an international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The complexity of our biology resides not in the number of our genes but in the regulatory switches,» Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and collaborator on the ENCODE project, said in a press briefing September 5.

Since the successful sequencing of the human genome, interest in the group of genes encoding proteins responsible for DNA remodeling has grown exponentially.

The latest chapter in our story is ENCODE; an ambitious project which aims to characterise all the functional element in the human genome.

Their findings — reported by the mouse ENCODE Consortium online Nov. 19, 2014 (and in print Nov. 20) in four papers in Nature and in several other publications — examine the genetic and biochemical programs involved in regulating mouse and human genomes.

They entered the sequence of the gene that encoded the transporters in a genome data bank and saw that it closely matched the genes for Rh proteins in humans.

MiRNAs are molecules encoded in the genome of all animals, including humans, that regulate the activity of individual genes.

ENCODE was created to assemble a comprehensive catalog, or «parts list,» of all functional elements in the human genome.

«modENCODE will enable us to confirm what we're finding in the human genome by manipulating the fly and worm genomes in a precise and rapid way,» said Elise Feingold, PhD, the NHGRI program director in charge of the ENCODE and modENCODE projects.

This knowledge, which will only be rapidly obtainable in the model organisms, will allow the reduction of most of the approximately 70,000 individual genes encoded by the human genome into a much smaller number of multicomponent, core processes of known biochemical function.

Last week ENCODE published their findings in 30 papers, representing a significant advance in understanding about the function of the human genome.

Gerstein is one of hundreds of researchers who participated in ENCODE, or the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, a massive collaboration launched in 2003 to catalogue the human genome's every last piece.

The ENCODE maps allow researchers to inspect the chromosomes, genes, functional elements and individual nucleotides in the human genome in much the same way.»

«ENCODE has revealed that most of the human genome is involved in the complex molecular choreography required for converting genetic information into living cells and organisms.»

And now, the ENCODE Consortium has provided us exactly what they promised: an encyclopedia of the functional elements in the human genome.

A second, perhaps less - hyped initiative (called the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, or ENCODE) set out to delineate all functional elements in the human genome.

The goal of ENCODE is to build a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome, including elements that act at the protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which a gene is active.

He led the analysis group for the ENCODE project, which is defining functional elements in the human genome.

7/12/2007 One Man's Junk May be a Genomic Treasure Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what's referred to as «junk» DNA — the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn't encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose — is present in the genome for an important r...

Almost 750 genes encoding a GPCR are identified in the human genome.

ENCODE was launched in 2003 to identify and characterize the functional elements in the human genome sequence.

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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced approximately $ 31.5 million in grants this fiscal year, pending funds, as part of its latest expansion of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, or ENCODE 4.

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In human populations, genome - wide association studies have revealed associations between variants of the circadian clock — related gene Mntr1b, which encodes melatonin receptor 1B, fasting glucose concentrations, and the risk of type 2 diabetes (12 — 14).