Sentences with phrase «factor than genes»

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External factors are likely to play a bigger part in developing the personality of an individual than the genes it inherits from its parents, suggests the study.

She says that besides fertility, there are hints that the new Y genes might be a factor in why men tend to be taller than women and in a rare cancer called gonadoblastoma.

This week in Science, researchers led by genome sequencing pioneer Craig Venter report engineering a bacterium to have the smallest genome — and the fewest genes — of any freely living organism, smaller than the flower's by a factor of 282,000.

Cook adds that the short form of the gene is only one factor in the disorder, as it occurs in 16 % of the general population, while less than 0.1 % is afflicted with autism.

Similarly, someone who inherits the version of a particular gene that's associated with obesity will be more likely to wind up fat than someone who inherits a normal version, but that tendency can be affected by environmental factors such as how much fattening food is available.

But rather than delivering the entire gene for the clotting - factor proteins to cells, as most gene therapies do, the researchers used the viruses to engineer immune - regulating B cells to express a fragment of the clotting factor fused to an immune molecule called an immunoglobulin.

Three simultaneous reports involving more than 32,000 participants uncovered four new diabetes - associated gene variants, bringing to 10 the number of known non-Mendelian genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

While more than 20 genes have been identified as risk factors for AD in Caucasians, fewer than five have been identified for African Americans.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

Constellation of factors Twin studies have shown that identical twins (who share the same genes) are more likely to both suffer from the disorder than fraternal twins, which has demonstrated that «there's a large genetic component to the disorder,» Cantor says.

We had started working on this more than a year ago, when we tried inserting four transcription factors, which regulate genes, into the skin cells.

After summing up decades of research on the physical and psychological factors behind eating, starving and yo - yo dieting, Mann suggests common sense strategies to achieve a healthy weight — which has more to do with your genes than your jean size — and accept your body for what it is.

Imagine the consequences if some of those piddly nucleotide changes arose in a protein that happened to be a transcription factor: Suddenly, instead of activating 23 different genes, the protein might charge up 21 or 25 of them — or it might turn on the usual 23 but in different ratios than normal.

But he points out that supercentenarians (those living past age 110) share even more genetic factors than centenarians, possibly improving the chances of finding protective gene variants.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

They later showed that RORA, a nuclear hormone receptor that functions as a transcription factor, can potentially regulate the transcription of more than 2,500 genes, including over 400 genes already associated with autism.

Solving a puzzle of plant manipulation Rather than try to isolate single genes related to secondary cell wall production, the researchers looked at the function of hundreds of transcription factors working within the root xylem's regulatory network.

The rapid effort — the panel had less than 2 weeks to produce its report — concluded that «there is no definitive gene responsible for homosexuality,» that homosexuality is not a disease nor abnormal, and that being gay can be influenced by environmental factors such as culture and peer pressure.

The team suspects the difference may be due to the expression of a gene that codes for a growth factor called bone morphogenetic protein 2 (Bmp2); expression was 30 % higher in the developing forelimbs of bats than it was in mice.

At the time, Martin Cohn, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, discovered snake embryos had a different pattern of activity of certain genes than other reptiles and that applying a growth factor could make those embryos start to grow limbs.

Earlier this year, scientists examining more than two million births in Sweden reported that inherited genes make up about 50 percent of a child's autism risk, while environmental factors make up the other half.

It's hard to say what is selecting for these traits, and to discern whether they are being passed down through the women's genes, but because Stearns controlled for many social and cultural factors, it is likely that his results document genetic, rather than cultural evolution at work.

Epigenetics is the study of how genes can be switched on and off by factors in the environment or other external factors rather than an individual's DNA sequence.

Perhaps, a molecule that could stimulate neurotrophic factors, such as NGF in vivo, would be more efficient, more safe and cost effective than gene delivery directly into the brain.

The new study found that those environmental factors can influence immunity more than our genes do.

Among the growth factors, expression of mRNA of genes that encode for GDNF, FGF2, GM - CSF and TGF - β1 was significantly higher in cumulus cells than in oocytes.

The results of the study show that hereditary factors play a significant role for more than 75 per cent of the proteins, and a detailed genetic analysis demonstrates 16 genes with a strong effect on protein levels.

Rather than the expected virulence factor, the newly discovered E. coli - specific genes helped protect the bacteria from the toxic effect of metal ions the body uses to fight infection.

Additional gene duplication and divergence in eumetazoans further increased transcription factor gene family number, which in general are 2 to 34 times larger in eumetazoans than in Amphimedon.

Despite their phylogenetic relatedness, virulence factors and β - lactamase resistance genes were more numerous in clinical than in environmental isolates.

BGEM contains images for more than 400 genes with DNA binding and / or transcription factor activity, and more than 300 genes with protein translation and protein transport activity.

First of all - its important to understand that when schizophrenia researchers talk about «environment» they have a very broad definition that basically includes everything other than «genes» or genetic factors.

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That means I need to find ways to increase BDNF more than in someone with the normal gene in order to preserve my cognitive function, memory, and emotional regulation.8 Mu, J.S., et al. «Deprivation of Endogenous Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor Results in Impairment of Spatial Learning and Memory in Adult... continue 9Cirulli, F., et al. «Intrahippocampal Administration of BDNF in Adult Rats Affects Short - term Behavioral Plasticity in the Morris Water Maze and... continue

The increased power provided by looking for specific gene candidate variations rather than linked markers will aid the identification of epilepsy risk factors, perhaps leading to development of DNA tests to enable breeders to select against such risk factors.

Frustratingly, this has been less successful than initially hoped, and greater gene mapping success may result from deconstructing factor - based phenotypes into their underlying components [12].