Sentences with phrase «find additional mutations»

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.

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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.
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