Geneticist Richard Sturm of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, an author of one of the papers says that someday scientists may
find additional mutations that cause blue eyes but for now, the signs point to a single change.
Not exact matches
Eight
additional affected children in six unrelated families were
found to also have disease - causing
mutations in this gene.
Velculescu cautions that medical practice may not change much until
additional studies validate their
findings, and there are ongoing clinical trials studying the removal of fallopian tubes instead of ovaries in women with cancer - causing, hereditary BRCA1 and BRCA2
mutations.
No de novo or truncating KIF17
mutations were
found in the
additional samples.
«We looked for other
mutations and
found that an
additional mutation was needed to activate hAgo1 slicing,» says Chris Faehnle, the first author of the paper.
Cells from the
founding clone sometimes acquired
additional cooperating
mutations (e.g. FLT3), yielding subclones that may have contributed to progression or relapse.
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.
Together these
findings suggest that
additional mutations are involved which modify the age of onset of ophthalmoscopic abnormalities associated with the RPGRIP1
mutation.