Sentences with phrase «fibrosis gene known»
It is most commonly caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis gene known as F508del.
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Prospective parents who may be carriers of a genetic disorder, such as Tay - Sachs disease or Cystic fibrosis, can know for certain by having their own genes tested.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified mutations in two genes that cause a fatal lung scarring disease known as familial pulmonary fibrosis.
Yet even knowing exactly which mutated gene causes a disease — as in Huntington's and cystic fibrosis — doesn't necessarily mean it is either preventable or curable.
The condition is more common than muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but the development of new therapeutic concepts is hindered by the fact that unlike muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, where a single mutated gene causing the disease is known, the entire human chromosome 21 (containing around 300 genes) still has to be dissected into individual gene - dose contributions to the DS symptoms.
More and more scientists are using the powerful new gene - editing tool known as CRISPR / Cas9, a technology isolated from bacteria, that holds promise for new treatment of such genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy...
Woodward is most known for discovering a genetic marker used for the identification of carriers for and the eventual discovery of the gene for cystic fibrosis, according to his biography.
Take cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that creates a life - threatening accumulation of mucus in the lungs and is known to result from a single mutation in a single gene.