Sentences with phrase «few gene variations»

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Focusing on specific genes or regions is an especially good strategy for taxonomy projects, where variation in a few genes is often sufficient to place an organism on a phylogenetic tree.

In this case, the gene variation has dramatic effects on the fat cells on women's abdomens and hips, causing the cells to become larger but fewer.

«One of Hlusko's goals is to detect and identify a few of these genes with major effects on variation in tooth size and shape in general.

So when Drake and his colleagues measured the RNA levels — a direct link to how much of a gene is being produced — in the genes of 334 mice, he didn't expect to find more than a few variations that might help explain why males and females have such different rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or why they react differently to certain drugs.

«One of Leslea's goals is to detect and identify a few of these genes with major effects on variation in tooth size and shape in general.

However, if «feeling worse» lasts more than few days, this could be due to overmethylation, other gene variations, or a sensitivity to the supplements; and the supplements should be discontinued.

Pierce et al. in a fascinating BMJ article state that only 7 % of human genetic variation is due to race and very few of these variations relate to health, skewering the thrifty gene hypothesis along the way (Pearce, Foliaki et al. 2004).

Gottesman and Gould describe the rationale behind the concept of endophenotype as providing relatively straightforward and more elementary phenomena as opposed to behavioural phenotypes and therefore require fewer numbers of genes to produce variations in these traits as opposed to behavioural phenotypes or psychiatric diagnoses.24 These studies include associations of cortisol, as end - product of HPA - axis activity, 25 — 27 autonomic nervous system functioning, 28 and neuropsychological characteristics29 with various mental health problems.