Sentences with phrase «finding gene»

Otherwise if we have the status listed incorrectly it will greatly muddy the waters and make finding the gene nearly impossible.

They now have over 800 samples and are working with a neurogenetics laboratory in Montreal with the ultimate aim of finding the gene (s).

Some appear to be looking for the answer in some magic fruit or food while others are more concentrated in finding a gene or a special drug that would take care of the problem.

A: Since it took 3 years to find the marker, everybody thought finding the gene would be a piece of cake.

Crow also believes that this asymmetry is due to a certain gene, and that finding this gene could have an immense affect on schizophrenia treatment.

Scientists have used Arabidopsis for the past 40 years as the model for finding a gene and have used it as a guide to find equivalent genes in other plants, such as rice, corn, potatoes or tomatoes.

Although finding the gene (s) responsible and the regulatory regions that are relevant for such conditions does not automatically lead to a cure, such findings can give important clues about what is malfunctioning at the cellular level, a required step in designing therapeutic interventions.

Umarova, A., Garcia, A., and Linder C. Finding the gene for repro29 infertile mice: Zcchc8 candidate gene sequencing.

«I'm delighted they're close to finding the gene,» says epidemiologist Nicholas Petrakis of the University of California, San Francisco.

But just finding a gene tells you nothing about the logic of language and how it develops.

For his part, Harley says Geron got involved in cloning hTR because Greider and Avilion didn't seem to be making significant progress, and finding the gene was «potentially crucial to our survival.»

Links between genetics and mental illness led to several major discoveries this year: Researchers at Myriad Genetics in Salt Lake City reported finding a gene related to depression, and researchers at the University of California at San Diego found a flawed gene linked to manic depression.

But many biologists also believe that genetic maps, which mark spots where DNA differs from one person to another, will prove critical in finding gene mutations linked to disease.

But it wasn't just about finding the gene.

Lupski was comparing genes in people with and without the disease in the hope of finding a gene variant unique to the condition.

The researchers caution that this study is only a starting point in the long process of finding the gene or genes directly responsible for longevity because the implicated area of chromosome 4 may hold as many as 500 genes.

Published in GigaScience, the open source Galaxy workflow allows researchers to make easier work of finding gene families; an important tool when it comes to analysing the evolution, structure and function of genes across species.

At the same time, Asahina stresses, finding a gene that influences aggression does not mean that aggression is controlled only by genes and always genetically programmed.

She plans to find the genes at play in the first few days of fertilisation when an embryo develops a coating of cells that later become the placenta.

She is identifying the enzymes in these natural products to find the genes responsible so that they can be introduced into other plants.

From the sequence data, they found gene variants indicating that the man had dark skin and eyes.

In this genome - wide association study, researchers found gene variants mapping to five loci associated with intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (IEAA) and gene variants in three loci associated with extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration.

Genetic research could also enable fussy eaters to get all the nutrients they need by finding the genes that affect taste preference.

When researchers sequenced the sponge's genome in 2010, they found genes that help individual cells cooperate as a group: how to divide, send signals to one another, and distinguish between friends and outsiders.

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

«If you want to find a gene that makes you see colors, you compare the genes of people who see colors with the genes of people who are color - blind.

Easy workflow to find gene families.»

Her team found a gene, which they have since dubbed happyhour, that makes fruit flies sensitive to booze.

After combing through genetic data from over 100,000 individuals, researchers found the genes were more common in people who had trouble getting enough shut - eye.

Sequencing the genome of one such organism, King and her colleagues found genes that code for pieces of the same proteins used for the binding of cells and communication between cells in animals — functions that would be unexpected in such an organism.

«What my student Rey did in a very innovative strategy was find genes in the chromosome of that organism that we thought were negatively affecting our ability to produce protein,» Jewett said.

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

W: In several studies researchers have found a gene associated with violence.

B: When I got here, we finally found the gene that made the enzyme that made the second molecule.

Zimmer: What scientists point out is that just because you find a gene that correlates with intelligence doesn't mean that it's necessarily doing something we think of it having anything to do with intelligence.

There are several reasons why nobody before Shatz had found genes coding for MHCI in normal neurons.

In the quest for longer life, scientists are trying to find the genes of longevity and bottle their benefits for all.

We try to find a gene or genes responsible and learn how they cause the variation.

When Orlando and colleagues examined horse DNA for genes that may have rapidly changed during domestication, they too found genes involved in neural crest cell function.

Japanese scientists in August reported that they had not only found the genes responsible for this trait (and named them SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2), but had also successfully introduced those genes into other, more highly productive rice varieties.

McMahon says that although numerous small studies have attempted to find genes implicated in antidepressant action, this is «by far the largest» as well as the first to yield a «strong and reproducible signal.»

They found genes for five new receptors, all of which belong to a known family of proteins called formyl peptide receptors (FPRs).

«What you have to do,» he explains, «is find a gene that has only one copy expressed.»

Another found gene is linked to angiogenesis, the production of new blood vessels to support a tumor.

The teams are yet to identify every gene contained within this supergene region, but have so far found a gene involved in colouring, which could explain differences in plumage, as well as genes involved in processing sex hormones.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

All of this means that even when Hamer or some other researcher finds the gene in question and a prenatal genetic test for the gene becomes possible, such a test will offer little more than a hint about the future sexual orientation of the fetus.

Nancy Segal and Nick Martin acknowledge that progress in finding genes through twin studies has been next to nil.

«Rsearchers crack mystery behind rare bone disorder: Study finds gene mutations that cause «dripping candle wax» bone disease.»

Researchers have found a gene that promotes faster - growing and larger roots, which could lead to plants with a robuster ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon