Sentences with phrase «fewer genes for»

If, as Dr. Olsson has said, osteochondrosis is the description of a general disorder in which HD is one manifestation, and elbow problems are others, then perhaps by selecting for normal hips, our better American breeders were unwittingly and unintentionally selecting dogs with fewer genes for osteochondrosis of any sort, including in elbows.

Until this study, only a few genes for these bacteria had been identified.

Not exact matches

Birds, for example, can regenerate hair cells — and lately researchers have found a few similar effects in mammals that used gene and drug therapy.

So in the cited reference, even though we start with 4 alleles, we know that for many, many genes, 3/4 would be lost, forever, after a few generations.

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

For instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanisFor instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanisfor instance, in industrial melanism).

«Opening a micro-distillery in Cooperstown has been a dream in the making for quite a few years,» states Gene Marra, Founder of Cooperstown Distillery.

Whether or not a child is born with this special gene, you can take advantage of the first few years of your baby's life, which experts believe is an optimal period for learning.

Luckily for me, a few hours of sleep, a supportive family, and lucky genes were all it took to feel normal again.

A gene on the Y chromosome becomes active late in the sixth week, functioning for only a few days to tell the embryo to become a boy.

The seat was left vacant by the passing a few weeks ago of then - sitting Legislator Gene Hatton; many members of both committees and Mr. Palmateer expressed their respect and admiration for Mr. Hatton.

«The Wall The Heals» will be set up in Neahwa Park in Oneonta over the Memorial Day Weekend, local organizer for the event; Gene Schmidt said that there is still a need for a few more volunteers, as preparations are already underway:

However, for a few genes, only one allele is expressed, while the other one is silenced.

They discovered that most orphan genes persist for relatively few generations.

A few years ago scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine inserted the gene for the human L - type photopigment into mice.

About 8 percent of men, but fewer than 1 percent of women, have impoverished color vision, typically because they lack the gene for either the L - or the M - type photopigment.

For instance, people who have low cholesterol their entire lives — such as those born with a mutation in a gene called PCSK9 — suffer far fewer heart attacks than people who lower their cholesterol only later in life.

«This was all forest» Gene - Rene Vaceus, a driver for the United Nations who returned to his native Haiti from New York a few years ago to retire, drives past the barren hills and says the verdant country of his youth is long gone.

Few scientific endeavors captured as much public interest as the race to identify BRCA1, a gene responsible for inherited predisposition to breast and ovarian cancers.

Prasher and Chalfie were awarded a patent for the use of GFP as a marker of gene expression; in total, it earned Prasher just a few hundred thousand dollars in royalties over 15 years.

As for the identities of Mendel's other four genes, Weeden says he expects them to be revealed in the next few years as more plant genomes give up their sequences.

This test determined that only a few genes switched off when signaling was blocked — and one of them was the gene known to code for MHCI.

Through some combination of luck, good genes, and a healthy lifestyle, it is possible, it seems, for a fortunate few to stay razor sharp well into old age.

The Pima endured these conditions for millennia, and geneticists believe that, over time, their bodies evolved a «thrifty genotype» — a set of genes that enabled them to subsist on very few calories by increasing the efficiency of their metabolism and storing as much energy as possible as fat.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks habitat and as caribou have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

Professor Carola Vinuesa, Co-director of the Centre for Personalised Immunology, said research was showing lupus was primarily caused by defects in only one or a few genes.

The new gene - expression test for bacterial infection faces two hurdles before it can be made available to doctors in a few years.

Although many different malaria resistance loci have been postulated over the years, this is one of very few that have stood up to stringent testing in a large multi-centre study; the others include the genes for sickle cell and the O blood group.

«What we've determined is that this protein's ability to alter editing of mRNAs is not specific to just a few genes, but instead, its ability to bind to mRNAs is required for proper RNA editing of most mRNAs,» said Michael C. Washburn, a graduate student in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Biology and first author on the paper with Boyko Kakaradov of the University of California, San Diego.

As with all of our other genes, the DNA that encodes the telomerase enzyme is present in all of our cells — but because it's needed only after quite a few cell divisions have occurred, it's not needed in most cells for most or all of the time, so it's turned off.

Although juvenile glaucoma accounts for fewer than 1 % of all cases, early indications are that mutations in the TIGR gene are behind at least 3 % of adult - onset cases as well.

They found that dramatically reducing the amount of protein expressed by TMEM108, a gene already associated with schizophrenia, results in fewer, smaller spines, which work like communication fingers for neurons, said neuroscientist Dr. Lin Mei.

Tinkering with flower genes hasn't provoked the same kind of furor as genetically modified agriculture, in part because there are fewer risks: Carnations, for instance, are produced asexually and don't make much pollen.

Although the correct gene did manufacture Factor 9 in the patients for a few weeks, soon their immune systems had wiped out the new cells containing AAV — and the precious gene for Factor 9.

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.

She notes that a few of the genes the team identified code for glutamate receptors, which play a key role in learning and memory and may have been selected in humans as well.

It would be very easy for a team physician to let therapeutic genes continue working for a few hours, days, or weeks after an officially sanctioned treatment ends.

In the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in horse genetics, and last year a test was unveiled for a «speed gene».

In a 2007 paper published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Poland and his colleagues reported that people who have mutations in a gene for a protein called SLAM produce 70 percent fewer antibodies after live measles inoculation than people without the mutation.

Quite a few overlapped genes, including some implicated in our individuality — blood type, smell, hearing, taste, and metabolism, for example.

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

We call this process «speciation with gene flow,» and evolutionary biologists have long wondered if the genetic basis for this process is highly repeatable and if the genes involved are spread out across the whole genome or in a few discrete regions.»

The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Leukemia Research Foundation, and the Scleroderma Foundation are just a few examples of the organizations supporting new investigator grants.

For example, they identified SNVs in genes encoding the collagen proteins that make up bone and cartilage, and in genes where other mutations have caused defects similar to Ata's, such as fewer - than - normal ribs or short stature.

The microbial mass in and on a person may amount to just a few pounds, but in terms of genetic diversity these fellow travelers overwhelm their hosts, with 400 genes for every human one.

So, desires for those masculine characteristics, which are thought to have been markers of high genetic quality in our male ancestors, don't last all month — just the few days in a woman's cycle when she is most likely to pass on genes that, eons ago, might have increased the odds of her offspring surviving and reproducing.

There are even a few islands — those that contain genes involved in behavior and size, key traits for domesticated animals — that are in the genomes of both European and Asian pigs, Larson reports.

A few months later he began a postdoctoral fellowship with Horvitz, who suggested he try to identify the defective gene responsible for the grotesquery that was the bag of worms.

«However, there are only ever a few of these homologous genes active at a given time and this fine - tuning is responsible for Microthrix» ecological success,» Muller adds.

«Low - cost way to build gene sequences: DropSynth can make thousands of genes at once for just a few dollars apiece.»