Sentences with phrase «findings about the genomes»

John McDowell of Virginia Tech worte an invited Commentary in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comparing findings about the genomes of plant pathogens.

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A human - chimp comparison revealed some 35 million mutations in the single units of the overall sequence and also found about 5 million additions to or subtractions from the genome involving chunks of DNA sequence.

I found this article about these guys at the Tel Aviv University that made the genome of the model of wheat, the same grain I used and just made a light bulb light up and I just contacted them and within a few days I had several kilograms of this material, we just started to process and eventually is this beer that we're drinking.

Science writer Mitch Leslie talks to postdoc Liz Cirulli about her work on a study that takes a whole - genome approach to finding clues to longevity among centenarians.

As such, the genome holds much less influence about longevity than expected and our results help to explain why [genome studies] of longevity have failed to find a reliable signal so far,» noted Erlich.

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

The researchers also asked nine factual questions about genome editing and found sharp differences in support for both treatment and enhancement based on knowledge.

Earlier surveys of Americans (here and here) have found a reluctance to support human genome editing, with many respondents expressing ethical and other concerns about such intentional tinkering.

This timeline highlights key discoveries about our closest relatives, from early fossil finds to the publication of the draft nuclear genome sequence.

Today's report includes the first recommendations ever given to labs and doctors about how to handle unexpected findings when the genome or its protein - coding «exome» is sequenced.

What is known about Azolla's true inner workings may still only skim the surface, but people all over the world, like Kathleen Pryer, a Duke professor who is crowdfunding the fern's genome, have continued to find creative ways to explore its possibilities.

The sequenced genome of a single individual yields about half a terabyte of data of information — that's about as much information as you'll find on 106 DVDs.

The team found that such occurrences in the genome are not uncommon; about 50 percent of the analyzed gRNAs had the potential to be affected by variants at their target sites.

Through more than 1,600 separate experiments, analysis of more than 140 cell types and a massive amount of data analysis, the group found about 4 million of these so - called switches and can now assign functions to more than 80 percent of the entire genome.

All together, the researchers found about 37,000 mutations occurring in 10,000 clusters in the chimp and human genomes that they think were caused by these proteins, they report today in Genome Research.

The genome shares about 60 % of its genes with the other invertebrates completely sequenced, such as the nematode and fruit fly, whereas about 5 % match sequences found only — up to now, at least — in the human, mouse, and puffer fish genomes.

After comparing all three genomes, the researchers have now found that tardigrades borrowed only 133 genes, about 0.7 percent of their genes, from other organisms.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

«Our findings underscore the need for increased awareness and education about prevention and early detection and treatment of CVD in African American women and younger adults of low socioeconomic status,» said Samson Y. Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc., lead study author and research scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

There are about 10 million of them in the human genome (often found in the DNA between genes), and most have no effect on health or development.

When the Max Planck scientists compared the bonobo genome directly with that of chimps and humans, however, they found that a small bit of our DNA, about 1.6 %, is shared with only the bonobo, but not chimpanzees.

Previous claims of fossil DNA finds have not been verified; the oldest DNA yet recovered comes from Neanderthals up to about 50,000 years old (see Neanderthals have genome chunk sequenced).

Two groups of researchers published the first genome - wide CNV maps, which illustrated that variation in gene quantity is actually quite common: each group found about 12 copy number imbalances per person.

A second major finding of the new study, which analyzes the genomes of over 2,500 «simplex» families — those in which a single child but neither parent nor siblings, if any, have ASD — is that the pool of spontaneously mutated genes contributing to ASD across the population totals about 400.

Analyzing the genomes of more enslaved Africans «and [finding] out where they came from... can tell us more about these people's identities and how they transformed over the centuries that followed,» he says.

The team says the new genome confirms their previous findings, showing that about 3 % of the genomes of living people in Papua New Guinea come from Denisovans, while the Han and Dai on mainland China have only a trace of Denisovan DNA.

But that DNA is in relatively long, unbroken chunks, the analyses found, suggesting that it was incorporated into Polynesians» genomes recently, perhaps about 500 to 2500 years ago, after the Lapita period.

The genetic data, which includes about one million markers across the genome, is compared among individuals, among populations, and between current and ancestral populations to determine hidden patterns of relatedness, sort individuals into groups that share genetic characteristics, and find correlations with genes of medical relevance.

As it turns out, the same mutations could have been found by sequencing only the protein - coding regions of the genome — called exome sequencing — for about $ 4000.

They found that 1285 loss - of - function gene variants are likely genuine, about 100 of which appear in the genome of the average European, MacArthur's team reports today in the 17 February issue of Science.

To find rarer SNPs that occur at 1 % frequency, genome leaders say, they need to sequence about 1000 genomes.

«They've actually been able to dig down into the genome and find out a little bit more about [parallel evolution],» says Tim Coulson, a population biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

They were then able to sequence a large portion of the golden - crowned manakin's genome including 16,000 different genetic markers, finding that about 20 per cent of its genome came from the snowy - crowned, and about 80 per cent came from the opal - crowned.

We provide initial insights into two critical issues: what clinical value can be extracted from different commercial and academic cancer genomic platforms, and how to think about scaling access to that value,» noted the study's Principal Investigator, Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University and Founding Director of the New York Genome Center.

The Rush team brought the samples to U-M's Center for Microbial Systems for sequencing, and Snitkin's team started to put the genome data together with what Hayden's team had found out about the outbreak.

Hakonarson's team conducted a genome - wide scan of about 1,000 pediatric diabetes patients, 1,200 healthy children and 1,000 parents of diabetics to track down any links between the illness and 550,000 known mutations found in their genetic code.

If you want more great stories about the cat genome and domestication, you'll find good articles in Wired Magazine and the Washington Post.

More details about The Cancer Genome Atlas, including Quick Facts, Q&A, graphics, glossary, a brief guide to genomics and a media library of available images can be found at http://cancergenome.nih.gov. Reference: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network.

And now some of those superfans from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Duke - NUS Medical School (along with some financial donors who just love durians enough to privately fund a study about them) have completely mapped the durian genome to find out, among other things, why the putrid stench, durians?

This briefing enabled journalists to find out about molecular genetic techniques for genome editingand tools for epigenetic modification.

Applying high - throughput sequencing technologies to obtain sequences from most of the genome, we calculated that the passenger pigeon's effective population size throughout the last million years was persistently about 1/10, 000 of the 1800's estimated number of individuals, a ratio 1,000 - times lower than typically found.

About the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was founded in 2003 to empower this generation of creative scientists to transform medicine with new genome - based knowledge.

Last week ENCODE published their findings in 30 papers, representing a significant advance in understanding about the function of the human genome.

Whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing of 31 pediatric Asian patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia found that about 10 percent had the same alteration in a non-coding region of DNA.

Information about the Personal Genome Project, recently published in the CMAJ can be found here:

But I was most excited about a different use of the data, and I found myself counting the months until the genome of a chimpanzee would be sequenced.

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