Sentences with phrase «even single gene»

It is well known that purebred dog breeds are associated with differing susceptibility to specific malignancies, suggesting that selected breeds of dog are inheriting «at risk» alleles for very few genes, perhaps even a single gene, with a profound effect.

There are even single gene mutations that link insulin sensitivity and weight gain recently discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Not exact matches

Even though there's no single «morning person gene» the results indicate that your love of the snooze button isn't entirely down to laziness, personal choice or your environment.

Microbes could load these donated genes together on a single piece of DNA, accelerating the spread of resistance even further.

The even greater surprise is the recent discovery that epigenetic signals from the environment can be passed on from one generation to the next, sometimes for several generations, without changing a single gene sequence.

Using a combination of old - fashioned clinical observation and modern biochemical analysis, he has shown that a person's appetite and their eating behavior can be linked to specific genes — and that even a tiny defect such as the absence of a single nucleic acid in a sequence of DNA can lead to runaway weight gain.

This allows us to discern between viral strains that may even be different by just a single gene mutation.»

Not only would it be enormously difficult to manipulate so many genes in a single person, but scientists would still have to reckon with the even more complicated matter of how the environment influences those genes.

Brandis and Hughes changed many different codons and showed that changing even a single codon in the gene for this protein into any one of the alternative «synonymous» codons reduced the «fitness» of Salmonella.

«The genome can give probabilities, not absolutes,» said Venter, pointing out that even inherited diseases with a strong, single - gene component, such as cystic fibrosis, aren't perfectly predicted by genetics.

«The problem is cancer cells are so diverse that even though the drugs, designed to target single cancer driving genes, often initially are effective, they eventually stop working and patients succumb to the disease,» Peter said.

A single infusion of the gene therapy drug showed improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 per cent of patients achieving normal or near - normal Factor VIII levels even many months after treatment.

«There are hundreds of candidate genes to sort through, and a single genetic variant may have different effects even within the same family.

However, even if it were possible to analyse every child's genetics, no single genes for IQ or educational achievement have yet been identified, says Sarah Norcross of the Progress Educational Trust, a UK charity that promotes debate on genetics and reproduction.

Those who take at trip into the workings of the genomic biology of the black - footed ferret may find that, even picking a single gene or two, they tug on the entire fabric of life.

And when they added just a single gene to the mix, the clusters of heart - like cells matured even further and began to beat in sync, mimicking the behavior of native beating heart cells.

«Depending upon molecular fluctuations, a single gene in a cell may switch randomly between active and inactive states, leading to vastly different biological responses, even for genetically identical cells,» says Munsky.

The technique, called homologous recombination, allows scientists to remove or insert a specific stretch of DNA — sometimes even a whole gene — from a single cell.

Unlike rare diseases, which typically stem from mutations in a single gene, common diseases emerge from mutations in multiple genes, sometimes tens or even hundreds of them.

The length of the loop is at least 8 nucleotides long; there is no apparent maximum in loop length, even in organisms possessing only a single Dicer gene, contra (6), even though most taxa like vertebrates with single Dicer genes never show loop lengths greater than ~ 40 nucleotides.

Since all dogs with CEA have CH it can be managed in the same way one would manage any single gene recessive trait even though other as - yet unidentified genes cause the more serious defects.

Polycystic kidney disease is different in that even a single defective gene can trigger the disease.