Sentences with phrase «epigenetic basis for»

His lab continues to study the genetic and / or epigenetic basis for the differences between leader and follower cells.

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She was the first person to identify the physiological mechanisms responsible for social monogamy, and her research interests focus on the neurobiological basis of behavior and the developmental and epigenetic effects of early experience.

A Berlin - based company called Epigenomics, in partnership with Roche Pharmaceuticals, expects to bring an epigenetic screening test for colon cancer to market by 2008.

For example, their Boston - based innovation center launched with news of a $ 12.9 million deal to back Rodin Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts - based biotech using epigenetics to develop novel therapeutics for neurological disorders, notably Alzheimer's diseaFor example, their Boston - based innovation center launched with news of a $ 12.9 million deal to back Rodin Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts - based biotech using epigenetics to develop novel therapeutics for neurological disorders, notably Alzheimer's diseafor neurological disorders, notably Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers based at Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) have constructed computer models to analyze epigenetic marks, which include proteins bound to DNA as well as chemical modifications to histone proteins.

In a review article published April 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientist Andrew Feinberg, M.D., calls for more integration between two fields of DNA - based research: genetics and epigenetics.

For the June issue of Men's Health, journalist Dan Crane wrote a story about this topic and discussed an epigenetics - based fertility test for mFor the June issue of Men's Health, journalist Dan Crane wrote a story about this topic and discussed an epigenetics - based fertility test for mfor men.

Marlinde L. van den Boogaard conduct analyses suggesting transcription of DUX4 in somatic cells is modified by variations in its epigenetic state and provide a basis for understanding the reduced penetrance of Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) within families.

However, researchers have been skeptical of blood - based epigenetic studies for one main reason: While the genome is the same in any cell from the same individual, the epigenome necessarily changes from tissue to tissue.

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Such analyses will be based on novel genomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic datasets generated for all mature blood cell types and their precursors by the EU - funded BLUEPRINT project.

ONE - PARENT SAMPLE SET PARENTAL GUIDANCE RULES: Maternally methylated (red dots) and paternally methylated (blue dots) regions across the human autosomal chromosomes, based on studies of uniparental disomy samplesGENOME RES, 24:554 - 69, 2014 RESEARCHERS Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Division Chief, Department of Maternal - Fetal Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; David Monk, Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ORGANISM Human METHODS Bisulfite - seq; bisulfite - chip Methylation is typically associated with the silencing of the nonexpressed allele, making it a convenient marker for imprinted genes, though it's possible for patterns of differential methylation to exist in tissues where both alleles are expressed.

Using genetic and epigenetic analyses coupled with powerful perturbation technologies to test gene functions in human cells and mouse models, we hope to identify the critical drivers of this disease and the basis for therapeutic responses.

Determining how ES cell genes are modified by these epigenetic markers may explain these cells» unique characteristics, said the scientists, who are based at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), both under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR), as well as at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

The fact that we're based in large part on the genes we inherit from our parents is certainly a point for nature, but the fact that our day - to - day life can influence epigenetic changes certainly puts one up on the board for nurture.

These data define a critical role for MORC2 in epigenetic silencing by the HUSH complex and provide a mechanistic basis underpinning the role of MORC2 mutations in CMT disease.

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The Primal Blueprint is based on lifestyle principles that have governed human health, evolution and peak performance for over two million years, and is supported by respected research in the fields of epigenetics and evolutionary biology.

«Many of the carcinogens present in mainstream smoke are known to exert their effects through a genotoxic mode of action, which is based on their ability to induce DNA damage and mutations, although an epigenetic mode of action, e.g., through aberrant DNA methylation and histone modifications, is also beginning to emerge for a few of these carcinogenic compounds.»