Sentences with phrase «find additional genes»

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The researchers then found that these same genes carry an additional risk for a phenomenon called spreading depolarization, a slowly - progressing, temporary electrical blackout of a region in the brain.

«We need to follow up with additional work to find the gene.»

And five months later, Jerry Shay and Woodring Wright of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, also working with Geron collaborators, published additional findings, showing that, by introducing the hTRT gene to cells, they could make those cells repair unraveling telomeres.

Using this method, the researchers found 91 genes missing from one or more virulent strains of M. bovis (8 strains total) and an additional 38 genes missing from some or all strains of BCG (13 strains total).

Eight additional affected children in six unrelated families were found to also have disease - causing mutations in this gene.

They found additional changes to the small number of genes carried within the mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses.

Scientist from the MPI for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim now found that additional genes compensate for a knocked out gene and either attenuate consequences or completely compensate deficits.

«We found hundreds of genes expressed exclusively by human astrocytes, and future studies will likely reveal additional biological differences.

The researchers also found that many endogenous genes had additional repeating sections of A and T nucleotides that mark them as «self» and not foreign.

Additional experiments, including gene knockdown, surfaced prohibitin as a likely infection aide; prohibitin is a multi-functional protein found in human cells and in many other organisms.

When the researchers looked at the role of genes that were methylated by genes with code differences related to ASD, including additional genes beyond those with direct code changes, they found that the majority were involved in biological pathways that were important in immune function.

The United Kingdom - based group, led by Julie Williams, Ph.D., Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales, found the same genes as risk factors and identified a gene variant ABCA7 as an additional gene of interest.

In particular, Lee kept finding additional copies of specific genes.

In the article describing the work in Molecular Therapy, co-authors Charis Himeda, Takako Jones and Peter Jones highlight the important implications for similar types of genetic diseases: «With increasing evidence that the repeat genome (comprising nearly half the human genome) plays important roles in gene regulation, additional diseases will likely be found associated with aberrant repetitive genomic sequences,» they write.

«It may have just a subtle influence,» suggests Dr. Cook, «but if we find two more autism - associated genes with the same prevalence — possibly additional hits along the same pathway — 16 percent cubed comes to four in a thousand, close to the frequency of autism.

This gene finding may allow scientists to identify patients with this aggressive form of the cancer and target them with additional therapies.

Finding just a single additional case with a deleterious variant in the same gene and overlapping phenotype may provide sufficient evidence to identify the causative gene, but today, case data sits in isolated databases.

Additional predicted gene targets were verified to bind Oct4 in situ, and targets were found to be enriched in several developmental and molecular processes by gene ontology analysis.

Subsequently, as additional dominant genes were found they were called SCA2, SCA3, etc..

Recognizing these findings can alert you to the need to analyze a different or additional cancer risk gene.

WEDNESDAY, April 12, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Close to half of breast cancer patients who chose to have a double mastectomy after genetic testing didn't actually have the gene mutations known to raise the risk of additional cancers, a new survey found.

Receptor molecules coded by the 7 - repeat allele have been found to have a lower potency for dopamine - mediated coupling to adenylate cyclase than receptors encoded by the other frequent, 2 - or 4 - repeat forms [90], and more recent results suggest an additional effect of the 48 bp VNTR on gene expression [91, 92].